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Kra (Kʼ / ĸ) is a glyph formerly used to write the 
Kra (Kʼ / ĸ) is a glyph formerly used to write the Kalaallisut language
West Greenlandic ( da, vestgrønlandsk), also known as Kalaallisut, is the primary language of Greenland and constitutes the Greenlandic language, spoken by the vast majority of the inhabitants of Greenland, as well as by thousands of Greenland ...
of Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...
and is now only found in Nunatsiavummiutut, a distinct Inuktitut dialect
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. It is visually similar to a Latin
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small capital letter '' K'', a Greek
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letter Kappa: '' κ, or a Cyrillic small letter Ka: к.
It is used to denote the sound written as in the International Phonetic Alphabet
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(the voiceless uvular plosive
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). For collation
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purposes, it is therefore considered to be a type of '' q'', rather than a type of '' k'', and should sort near ''q''.
Its Unicode code point for the lowercase form is . If this is unavailable, ''q'' is substituted. The letter can be capitalized as ''Kʼ'', but it is not encoded separately as a single letter because it is very similar to the Latin capital letter ''K'' followed by an apostrophe, preferably the modifier letter apostrophe, .
In 1973, a spelling reform replaced kra in Greenlandic with the Latin small letter ''q'' (and its capital form, with the Latin capital letter ''Q'').
Note that in the Greenlandic alphabet PDF from Evertype, the apostrophe-like symbol is represented by the symbol of U+2018, LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK. However Michael Everson uses the shape of the right single quotation mark or modifier letter apostrophe in other documents (e.g. Everson 1998).
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