What ԛ means
It represents the deep [q] sound. The sound is made farther back in the mouth than the [k] sound in English “skin.”
Abkhaz writing began with Uslar’s Cyrillic primer in 1862; the exact letter appears in Abkhaz Gospels printed in 1912.
A Soviet Kurdish alphabet using “Russian graphics” added Q/q and W/w in 1945. ԛ appears in a Kurdish reader from 1956 and a dictionary from 1957.
Why might Ԛ look like a reversed P?
The capital counterpart has had more than one design. Depending on the typeface or historical convention, Ԛ can look like a large q or a reversed P.
Kurdish has been written in Cyrillic, Latin, and Arabic-based traditions. Readers familiar with one spelling tradition may meet different letter forms in another.
A specialist letter from historical Cyrillic spellings, rather than a signal of tone.
Alone, ԛ gives too little context to identify a word.
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