Ka (Indic)

Ka
Example glyphs
Bengali–Assamese
Tibetan
Tamil
Thai
Malayalam
Sinhala
Ashoka Brahmi
Devanagari
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 , which is (according to the Semitic hypothesis) derived from the Aramaic ("K").