Īfter Greek words were taken into Latin, the Kappa was transliterated as a C. K survived only in a few fossilized forms such as Kalendae, "the calends". Later, the use of C and its variant G replaced most usages of K and Q. Of these, Q was used before a rounded vowel (e.g. ![]() In the earliest Latin inscriptions, the letters C, K and Q were all used to represent the sounds /k/ and /ɡ/ (which were not differentiated in writing). K was brought into the Latin alphabet with the name ka /kaː/ to differentiate it from C, named ce (pronounced /keː/) and Q, named qu and pronounced /kuː/. The Semites evidently assigned it the sound value /k/ instead, because their word for hand started with that sound. This, in turn, was likely adapted by Semitic tribes who had lived in Egypt from the hieroglyph for "hand" representing /ḏ/ in the Egyptian word for hand, ⟨ ḏ-r-t⟩ (likely pronounced /ˈcʼaːɾat/ in Old Egyptian). The letter K comes from the Greek letter Κ ( kappa), which was taken from the Semitic kaph, the symbol for an open hand. ![]() The letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive. Its name in English is kay (pronounced / ˈ k eɪ/), plural kays. ![]() K, or k, is the eleventh letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
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