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Q (named ''cue'' 〔"Q" ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "que," op. cit.〕) is the 17th letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
==History==
The Semitic sound value of Qôp (perhaps originally ''qaw'', "cord of wool", and possibly based on an Egyptian hieroglyph) was (voiceless uvular stop), a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in English or most Indo-European ones. In Greek, this sign as Qoppa (unicode:Ϙ) probably came to represent several labialized velar stops, among them and . As a result of later sound shifts, these sounds in Greek changed to and respectively. Therefore, Qoppa was transformed into two letters: Qoppa, which stood for a number only, and Phi Φ which stood for the aspirated sound that came to be pronounced in Modern Greek.
In the earliest Latin inscriptions, the letters C, K and Q were all used to represent the two sounds and , which were not differentiated in writing. Of these, Q was used before a rounded vowel (e.g. 'ego'), K before /a/, and C elsewhere. Later, the use of C (and its variant G) replaced most usages of K and Q: Q survived only to represent /k/ when immediately followed by a /w/ sound.
The Etruscans used Q in conjunction with V to represent .
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