Q
Spellings
Capital	Q
Bas-de-casse	q
Use
Alphabets	Latin
Order	17 th
Phonemes main	/ K /

Q is the ^17thletter and the ^13thconsonant in the Latin alphabet.

Origin

Hieroglyph Egyptian wj	Qoph Phoenician	Koppa Greek	Q Etruscan	Q Roman
Likely evolution of the grapheme

Linguistics

• It comes from the Q of the Latin alphabet , which was inherited from the Etruscan alphabet , having himself borrowed from Koppa Greek. In Latin , the letter is found only in the digraph QV, who noted a complex single consonant Phonetics

  The letter q is in French, where it is always followed by u , the same value as k or c hard. But linguists often use this letter to designate a guttural consonant velar fricative, that is to say a k articulated deeply. Such was the value of qof Semitic and qoppa (or Kopp) Greek. French, c, k and q, neck ratio may be called velar, in contrast to the guttural palatal of palmistry, discharge, cyst, but the French q is much shallower than the q Semitic. It can also be pronounced "kulent", it refers to an ancient poetic style.

  Comparative Grammar

  It is assumed that the Indo-European language had a prehistoric q and qh (q sucked). This guttural could be accompanied by a labial phoneme, with some resemblance to the English w (in French: that in this, equation ...). In general, q Indo-European labialization became in Greek (p), (t) or (k) according to the phoneme which followed, and in Latin that, c; in Oscan and Umbrian p, c; Irish c; in Sanskrit k or c, k in Lithuanian and in old Slavonic k, tch, c; in Germanic hw, w, f.

  In the passage from Latin to Romance languages, that the initial front has become Coding

  Computer

  • Code ASCII , ISO 8859-1 , Unicode :
    • Capital: 81 U = 0051
    • Minuscule: U 113 = 0071

  Radio

  Audio file
  Q Morse Problems listening to the file?

  • Spelling alphabet radio
    • International: Quebec
    • German : What
  • In Morse code , the letter Q is " --- ".

  Other

  Signaling		Sign language		Writing Braille
  Flag	Semaphore	French	Quebec

  List of French words containing Q not followed the letter of u

  Some words (mostly borrowed from Chinese , to the Arab or the Hebrew ) containing a Q not followed by the letter u. Their number varies according to the dictionary selected reference ^Reference

  1. The Official Scrabble 5th ed. 2007; dictionary Larousse in 5 volumes, ed. 1989.

  See also

  • Latin alphabet
  • ( Koppa ), archaic letter of the Greek alphabet
  • (In) List of English words containing Q not followed the letter of u

  Latin alphabet
  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
  Additional letters	d ( ) /
  With diacritical	superscript: N hook or crook: ( ) H ( ) registered: DJ ( ) pm T Z
  Digraphs	C. Dx Gb Kp LI Mb Mp Nd Ng Nh Nk Ns Nt Ny Nz Or Sh Th
  Trigrams	C'h Ngb NKP Sch Tsh
  Obsolete letters	s

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