Qubee letter Q

Sounds like a hard, glottalized k.

Q is letter 21 of the 31 Qubee letters of Afaan Oromo. It is one letter with one sound, so a child learns it once and traces it as one shape.

Trace Q in the app

Sounda hard, glottalized k
How to make itLike k, but made deep in the throat with a catch.
Where it sitsLetter 21 of 31, before R, after PH

Qoricha

Medicine — starts with Q

Teaching Q to a child

Say the sound first, then let the child trace it. Like k, but made deep in the throat with a catch. Ask for one more word that starts with Q — a name in the family counts — and the letter becomes a game rather than a lesson.

In the app the whole stop takes a minute or two: trace Q, hear it, pick it out of four letters, then watch the hut on the road raise its flag.