Re: Cyrillic Q

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Thu Sep 27 2001 - 07:01:04 EDT


At 02:48 9/27/2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>A lot of time ago, someone on this list mentioned a language, written in the
>Cyrillic alphabet, which employed letter "Q", taken from the Latin alphabet.
>
>Which language is it?

Kurdish. The common Cyrillic orthography includes four Latin letterforms
that are, as far as I know, unique to Kurdish:

         U+0051, U+0071 Capital, Small Q
         U+0057, U+077 Capital, Small W

John Hudson

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Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com

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