Q
17th letter of the Latin alphabet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the letter. For other uses, see Q (disambiguation) and Queue (disambiguation).
For technical reasons, "Q#" redirects here. For the programming language, see Q Sharp.
Q, or q, is the seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is pronounced /ˈkjuː/, most commonly spelled cue, but also kew, kue and que.[1]
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Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic and Logographic |
Language of origin | Greek language Latin language |
Phonetic usage | (Table) /ˈkjuː/ |
Unicode codepoint | U+0051, U+0071 |
Alphabetical position | 17 |
History | |
Development | |
Time period | Unknown to present |
Descendants | • Ƣ • Ɋ • ℺ • Ԛ |
Sisters | Φ Ф ק ق ܩ ࠒ 𐎖 ቀ Փ փ Ֆ ֆ |
Other | |
Other letters commonly used with | q(x) |
Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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