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Latin letter K with hook From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ƙ (minuscule: ƙ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used in Hausa to represent an ejective [kʼ].

Thumb — Traditional uppercase and lowercase K with hook.

Thumb — Wrong and preferred uppercase K with hook

Thumb — Wrong and preferred lowercase K with hook

It was formerly used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiceless velar implosive (currently [ɠ̊]). It was withdrawn in 1993.

Encoding

It is encoded in Unicode at U+0198 Ƙ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K WITH HOOK, and U+0199 ƙ LATIN SMALL LETTER K WITH HOOK.

In ISO 6438, K with hook is encoded as:

Ƙ: C0
ƙ: D0

See also

Alphabets with this letter

African reference alphabet
Pan-Nigerian alphabet
Alphabets for the following specific languages
- Hausa

External links

"Latin Extended B: Range 0180-024F" (Unicode code chart), specifically U+0198 and U+0199.

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