K, or k, is the eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is kay (pronounced / ˈ k eɪ / ⓘ ), plural kays .

2016年6月28日 · The letter K was common in the old Latin alphabet, but somehow it all but died out before the classical age. It may have been ousted by the letter C, but I'm not sure why that happened. Sometimes things happen for no apparent reason, arbitrary developments.

K, k 是拉丁字母中的第11个字母。 它来源于 希腊字母 的 Κ 或 κ (Kappa)，而希腊语的这个字母又来源于闪族语字母Kap，表示一支张开的手。 虽然拉丁语转用字母 C 而完全抛弃字母K，但闪族语字母的音值/k/在很多古典语言和现代语言中得到保留。

In late Latin and the early Romance period the unvoiced velar, represented by C, became palatalized before front vowels, and in the 12th century K was reintroduced as a substitute for C to represent the velar before front vowels since C did duty for both the

3 天之前 · For pronunciation and definitions of k – see K (“ karaoke; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of K). A letter of the Chipewyan alphabet, written in the Latin script. Inherited from Old Czech k, from Proto-Slavic *kъ (n).

2015年9月26日 · The Old Latin alphabet had 3 letters for the sound [k]: C, K, and Q. K was used before A, Q before V (the shape U appeared later), and C elsewhere. Besides, C was also used for the sound [g]. Later, K was marginalized and used only in a couple of words, e.g. Kalendae, and a new letter, G, derived from C, was introduced for the sound [g].

The modern Latin alphabet is used to write hundreds of different languages. Each language uses a slightly different set of letters, and they are pronounced in various ways. Some languages use the standard 26 letters, some use fewer, and others use more. This is the modern Latin alphabet as used to write English. Other versions of the Latin alphabet

Understanding its role helps highlight how Latin adapted elements from other languages and illustrates the historical evolution of the alphabet. 'k' is primarily used in Latin for words borrowed from Greek or other languages, indicating its limited use in native Latin vocabulary.

K-thus became a supplementary letter to -c-in Medieval Latin, used with Greek and foreign words. But most of the languages descended from Latin had little need of it, having evolved other solutions to the sound shifts.

When you look in a Latin dictionary, you'll find just a handful of words that begin with the letter K. Why is this? The answer lies in old Latin, Etruscan, a...