Ka (Indic)

Ka
Ka
Example glyphs
Bengali–AssameseKa
TibetanKa
TamilKa
Thai
Malayalam
Sinhala
Ashoka BrahmiKa
DevanagariKa
Cognates
Hebrewכ ,ך
GreekΚ
LatinK
CyrillicК
Properties
Phonemic representation/k/
IAST transliterationka Ka
ISCII code pointB3 (179)

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