Kra () is a character once used when writing the Kalaallisut language spoken in Greenland (although a spelling reform has replaced it with ). It is visually similar to a Latin small capital letter K and the Cyrillic letter к. Unusually for a Latin letter, it exists only in lower case form (like German ß).
It is used to denote the sound written as * in the International Phonetic Alphabet (the voiceless uvular plosive). For collation purposes, it is therefore considered to be a type of 'q', rather than a type of 'k', and should sort near 'q'.
Its Unicode code point is decimal 312 and hexadecimal U+0138. If this is unavailable, 'q' is substituted.
In 1973, a spelling reform replaced the use of Kra with 'q'.
Greenlandic culture | Uncommon Latin letters
Kra (lizherenn) | Kra | ĸ | ĸ | ĸ
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