Ka (Indic)

Ka
Example glyphs
Bengali–Assamese
Tibetan
Tamil
Thai	ก
Malayalam	ക
Sinhala	ක
Ashoka Brahmi
Devanagari
Cognates
Hebrew	כ ,ך
Greek	Κ
Latin	K
Cyrillic	К
Properties
Phonemic representation	/k/
IAST transliteration	ka Ka
ISCII code point	B3 (179)

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Ka is the first consonant of the Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, ka is derived from the Brāhmī letter , which is (according to the Semitic hypothesis) derived from the Aramaic ("K").