Ғ

The Ғ (lower case letter ғ ) is a letter of the extended Cyrillic alphabet , consisting of a Г with a slash. In many fonts this letter looks confusingly similar to the Latin letter F.

use

This letter is used in the language family of Turkic and Indo-European unless Cyrillic alphabet is used Tajik. Usually it is in the fifth position of the respective alphabet, in Kazakh in sixth, in Uzbek in thirty-fourth.

It denotes a voiced uvular fricative (IPA: ʁ ) in the following languages: ​​

• Bashkir language
• Uzbek language
• Tajik language
• Hunting language

In some languages ​​it also denotes the voiced velar fricative (IPA: ɣ ): ​​

• Azerbaijani language
• Kazakh language
• Karakalpak language

In other Turkic languages with Cyrillic writing these sounds are used to identify other spellings, so гъ [⁠ ɣ ⁠] in Crimean Tatar and Tatar . In Turkmen was for [⁠ g ⁠] and [⁠ ʁ ⁠] used indiscriminately г.

Transcription and transliteration

• In Turkish-speaking Latin alphabets , the letter ğ is mostly used today, for example in Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Bashkir, Tatar and Crimean Tatar, in Uzbek and Karakalpak, however, gʻ, in Turkmen g. In the Uniform Turkish Alphabet used in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s , the corresponding sounds were represented with the letter Ƣ .
• gh is used for the Latin transcription of Tajik.
• in the Arabic alphabet as غ .

Character encoding

default		Uppercase Ғ	Minuscule ғ
Unicode	Codepoint	U + 0492	U + 0493
	Surname	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE
UTF-8		D2 92	D2 93
XML / XHTML	decimal	Ғ	ғ
	hexadecimal	Ғ	ғ