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The International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet or simply Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the NATO phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used set of clear-code words for communicating the letters of the Roman alphabet.
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The letter K comes from the Greek letter Κ (kappa), which was taken from the Semitic kaph, the symbol for an open hand. 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 Semites evidentl...
English
The letter usually represents /k/ in English. It is silent when it comes before ⟨n⟩ at the start of a stem, e.g.: 1. At the start of a word (knight, knife, knot, know, and knee) 2. After a prefix (unknowable) 3. In compounds (penknife) English is now the only Germanic language to productively use "hard" ⟨c⟩ (outside the digraph ⟨ck⟩) rather than ⟨k⟩ (although Dutch uses it in loan words of Latin origin, and the pronunciation of these words follows the same hard/soft distinction as in English)...
Other languages
In most languages where it is employed, this letter represents the sound /k/ (with or without aspiration) or some similar sound. The Latinization of Modern Greek also uses this letter for /k/. However, before the front vowels /e,i/ this is rendered as [c], which can be considered a separate phoneme.
Other systems
The International Phonetic Alphabet uses ⟨k⟩ for the voiceless velar plosive.
In the International System of Units (SI), the SI prefix for one thousand is kilo-, officially abbreviated as k: for example, prefixed to metre/meter or its abbreviation m, kilometre or km signifie..."K" replacing "C" in satiric misspelling.K is the unit symbol for the kelvin, used to measure thermodynamic temperature (note: degree sign is not used with this symbol).K is the chemical symbol for element potassium (from its Latin name kalium).Ancestors, descendants and siblings
1. 𐤊 : Semitic letter Kaph, from which the following symbols originally derive 2. Κ κ/ϰ : Greek letter Kappa, from which K derives 3. К к : Cyrillic letter Ka, also derived from Kappa 4. K with diacritics: Ƙ ƙ, Ꝁ ꝁ, Ḱ ḱ, Ǩ ǩ, Ḳ ḳ, Ķ ķ, ᶄ, Ⱪ ⱪ, Ḵ ḵ 4.1. Ꞣ and ꞣ were used in Latvian orthographybefore 1921 5. The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet uses various forms of the letter K: 5.1. U+1D0B ᴋ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL K 5.2. U+1D37 ᴷ MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL K 5.3. U+1D4F ᵏ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL K 6....
Ligatures and abbreviations
1. ₭ : Lao kip 2. Ꝃ ꝃ, Ꝅ ꝅ : Various forms of K were used for medieval scribal abbreviations
Computing
1. 1 Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Media related to Kat Wikimedia CommonsThe dictionary definition of Kat WiktionaryThe dictionary definition of kat WiktionaryThe Schengen Area ( English: / ˈʃɛŋən / SHENG-ən, Luxembourgish: [ˈʃæŋən] ⓘ) is an area encompassing 29 European countries that have officially abolished border controls at their mutual borders.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an international military alliance consisting of 32 member states from Europe and North America. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949.
