Editing Q (section)

==Use in writing systems==
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible"
|+ Pronunciation of {{angbr|q}} or {{angbr|qu}} by language
! Orthography
! Spelling
! Phonemes
|-
! [[Afar language|Afar]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|ʕ}}
|-
! [[Albanian orthography|Albanian]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|cç}}
|-
! [[Azerbaijani alphabet|Azeri]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|ɡ}}
|-
! [[Catalan orthography|Catalan]]
! {{angbr|qu}}
| /{{IPA link|k}}{{IPA link|w}}/ or {{IPAslink|k}}
|-
! {{nwr|[[Standard Chinese]]}} ([[Pinyin]])
! {{angbr|q}}
|{{IPAslink|t͡ɕʰ}}
|-
! [[English orthography|English]]
! {{angbr|qu}}
| /{{IPA link|k}}{{IPA link|w}}/
|-
! [[Fijian language|Fijian]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|ᵑɡ}}
|-
! [[French orthography|French]]
! {{angbr|qu}}
| /{{IPA link|k}}/
|-
! [[Galician alphabet|Galician]]
! {{angbr|qu}}
| /{{IPA link|k}}/
|-
! [[German orthography|German]]
! {{angbr|qu}}
| /{{IPA link|k}}{{IPA link|v}}/
|-
! [[Hadza language|Hadza]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|!}}
|-
! [[Indonesian orthography|Indonesian]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| /{{IPA link|q}}/~/{{IPA link|k}}/
|-
! [[Italian orthography|Italian]]
! {{angbr|qu}}
| /{{IPA link|k}}{{IPA link|w}}/
|-
! [[Kʼicheʼ language|K'iche]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|qʰ}}
|-
! [[Khmer language|Khmer]] romanization
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|ʔ}}
|-
! [[Kiowa language|Kiowa]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|kʼ}}
|-
! [[Kurdish orthography|Kurdish]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|q}}
|-
! [[Maltese orthography|Maltese]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|ʔ}}
|-
! [[Menominee language|Menominee]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|ʔ}}
|-
! [[Mi'kmaq (language)|Mi'kmaq]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|x}}
|-
! [[Mohegan-Pequot language|Mohegan-Pequot]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|kʷ}}
|-
! [[Nuxalk language|Nuxalk]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|qʰ}}
|-
! [[Portuguese orthography|Portuguese]]
! {{angbr|qu}}
| /{{IPA link|k}}{{IPA link|w}}/ or {{IPAslink|k}}
|-
! [[Sasak language|Sasak]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|ʔ}}
|-
! [[Somali orthography|Somali]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|q}}~{{IPAslink|ɢ}}
|-
! [[Sotho orthography|Sotho]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|!kʼ}}
|-
! [[Spanish orthography|Spanish]]
! {{angbr|qu}}
| /{{IPA link|k}}/
|-
! [[Swedish orthography|Swedish]]
! {{angbr|qv}}
| /{{IPA link|k}}{{IPA link|v}}/ (pre-1900 spelling, still survives in proper names)
|-
! [[Uzbek alphabet|Uzbek]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|q}}
|-
! [[Vietnamese orthography|Vietnamese]]
! {{angbr|qu}}
| /{{IPA link|k}}{{IPA link|w}}/
|-
! [[Võro alphabet|Võro]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|ʔ}}
|-
! [[Wolof alphabet|Wolof]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|qː}}
|-
! [[Xhosa alphabet|Xhosa]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|!}}
|-
! [[Zulu alphabet|Zulu]]
! {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPAslink|!}}
|}

===English===
In [[English language|English]], the [[digraph (orthography)|digraph]] {{angbr|qu}} most often denotes the cluster {{IPAc-en|k|w}}; however, in borrowings from French, it represents {{IPAc-en|k}}, as in 'plaque'. See the [[list of English words containing Q not followed by U]]. Q is the [[Letter frequency|second least frequently used letter]] in the English language (after [[Z]]), with a frequency of just 0.1% in words. Q has the fourth fewest English words where it is the first letter, after [[X]], [[Z]], and [[Y]].

===Other languages===
In most European languages written in the Latin script, such as [[Romance language|Romance]] and [[Germanic languages]], {{angbr|q}} appears almost exclusively in the digraph {{angbr|qu}}. In [[French language|French]], [[Occitan language|Occitan]], [[Catalan language|Catalan]], and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], {{angbr|qu}} represents {{IPA|/k/}} or {{IPA|/kw/}}; in [[Spanish language|Spanish]], it represents {{IPA|/k/}}. {{angbr|qu}} replaces {{angbr|[[c]]}} for {{IPA|/k/}} before front vowels {{angbr|i}} and {{angbr|e}}, since in those languages {{angbr|c}} represents a fricative or affricate before front vowels. In [[Italian language|Italian]], {{angbr|qu}} represents {{IPA|[kw]}} (where {{IPA|[w]}} is the [[semivowel]] allophone of {{IPA|/u/}}). In [[Albanian language|Albanian]], Q represents {{IPA|/c/}}, as in '''Sh''q''ip'''.

The letter is often not used often or at all in other languages, The letter is not officially part of the [[Cornish language|Cornish]] ([[Standard Written Form]]), [[Estonian orthography|Estonian]], [[Icelandic alphabet|Icelandic]], [[Irish alphabet|Irish]], [[Latvian alphabet|Latvian]], [[Lithuanian orthography|Lithuanian]], [[Polish orthography|Polish]], [[Gaj's Latin alphabet|Serbo-Croatian]], [[Scottish Gaelic orthography|Scottish Gaelic]], [[Slovene alphabet|Slovenian]], [[Turkish alphabet|Turkish]], or [[Welsh alphabet|Welsh]] alphabets. However, in some of them, it may be found in borrowings.

{{angbr|q}} has a wide variety of other pronunciations in some European languages and in non-European languages that have adopted the Latin alphabet.

===Other systems===
The [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] uses {{angbr IPA|q}} for the [[voiceless uvular stop]].