The letter K comes from the Greek letter Κ (kappa), which was taken from the Phoenician kap, the symbol for an open hand.
This, in turn came Egypt from the hieroglyph
for hand. The first people to make an alphabet made it a K because their word for
hand started with that sound.
In the earliest Latin inscriptions, the letters C, K and Q were all
used to represent the sounds /k/ and /g/ (which were not differentiated in
writing).
the forth
letter K was from paleo-Hebrew:
The last letter K was from Greek:
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