Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the letter of the alphabet. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. K, or k, is the eleventh k5shby2d0yy -site:youtube.com in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

The letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive. Semitic kaph, the symbol for an open hand. Later, the use of C and its variant G replaced most usages of K and Q. K survived only in a few fossilized forms such as Kalendae, “the calends”. After Greek words were taken into Latin, the Kappa was transliterated as a C. Hence, the Romance languages generally use C, in imitating Classical Latin’s practice, and have K only in later loanwords from other language groups.

The Celtic languages also tended to use C instead of K, and this influence carried over into Old English. Like J, X, Q, and Z, the letter K is not used very frequently in English. It is the fifth least frequently used letter in the English language, with a frequency in words of about 0. Turned capital and small k were used in transcriptions of the Dakota language in publications of the American Board of Ethnology in the late 19th century.