Kha or Ha (Х х; italics:
''Х х'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking co ...
. It
looks the same as the
Latin letter X (X x
''X x''), in both uppercase and lowercase, both roman and italic forms, and was derived from the
Greek
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**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
letter
Chi, which also bears a resemblance to both the Latin X and Kha.
It commonly represents the
voiceless velar fricative , similar to the correct pronunciation of in “loch”.
Kha is
romanised as for Russian, Ukrainian, Mongolian, and Tajik, and as for Belarusian, while being romanised as for Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Kazakh.
It is also romanised as for
Spanish
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Other places
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.
History
The Cyrillic letter Kha was derived from the
Greek letter Chi (Χ χ).
The name of Kha in the
Early Cyrillic alphabet
The Early Cyrillic alphabet, also called classical Cyrillic or paleo-Cyrillic, is a writing system that was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the late 9th century on the basis of the Greek alphabet for the Slavic people living ...
was (''xěrŭ'').
In the
Cyrillic numeral system, Kha had a value of 600.
Usage
Russian
Kha is the twenty-third letter of the
Russian alphabet. It represents the
voiceless velar fricative unless it is before a
palatalizing vowel, when it represents .
Ossetian
Kha represents the
voiceless uvular fricative
The voiceless uvular fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , the Greek chi. The sound is represented by (ex with underdot) in Am ...
in
Ossetian. The digraph ⟨хъ⟩ represents the
voiceless uvular plosive
The voiceless uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is pronounced like a voiceless velar plosive , except that the tongue makes contact not on the soft palate but on the uvula. The symbol in th ...
.
Belarusian
Kha is also an alternative transliteration of the letter خ Ḫāʼ in the
Arabic alphabet. This was used in
Belarusian Arabic script, corresponding to the above Cyrillic letter.
Related letters and other similar characters
*Χ χ :
Greek letter Chi
*Ξ ξ :
Greek letter Ksi
*H h :
Latin letter H
*J j :
Latin letter J
*X x :
Latin letter X
*ﺥ :
Arabic letter Ḫāʾ
*Һ һ :
Cyrillic letter Shha
*Ѯ ѯ :
Cyrillic letter Ksi
*ख़ :
Devanagari letter Ḵẖa
*ਖ਼ :
Gurumukhi letter Ḵẖa
Computing codes
External links
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