ķ U+0137, ķ
LATIN SMALL LETTER K WITH CEDILLA
Composition:k [U+006B] + ◌̧ [U+0327]
Ķ
[U+0136]
Latin Extended-A ĸ
[U+0138]

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ķ (upper case Ķ)

  1. The letter k with a cedilla.

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ķ (upper case Ķ)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Latgalian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

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Ķ

ķ (lower case, upper case Ķ)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called ķē and written in the Latin script.

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