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Aleut Ka

Cyrillic letter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ425337
Source-derived summary

Aleut Ka (Ԟ ԟ; italics: Ԟ ԟ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is formed from the Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) by adding a stroke to the upper diagonal arm.

Aleut Ka was used in the alphabet of the Aleut language in the 19th century, where it represented the voiceless uvular plosive /q/ (like the ‘k’ in ‘kite’ but uvular). During the revival of the Aleut Cyrillic alphabet in the 1980s it has been replaced by the Ka with hook.

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The public source identifies “Aleut Ka” as cyrillic letter. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Aleut, Cyrillic and letter.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 83-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Aleut, Cyrillic and letter providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Aleut Ka”, the useful work is to connect “cyrillic letter” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q425337. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from Aleut Ka” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.