Also known as Bashkir Qa, Bashkir Ka
letter in the Bashkir and Siberian Tatar Cyrillic alphabets, representing the voiceless uvular plosive /q/
Key facts
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Type
- Alphabetic
- Language of origin
- Bashkir language
- Sound values
- /q/
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Encyclopedic overview
Bashkir Qa or Bashkir Ka (Ҡ ҡ; italics: Ҡ ҡ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is formed from the Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) with the top extending horizontally to the left. It is used in the alphabet of the Bashkir language and (some forms of) Siberian Tatar. It represents the voiceless uvular plosive /q/.
It corresponds to, and is pronounced the same as, the letter Қ in Kazakh, Karakalpak, Uzbek, and (some forms of) Siberian Tatar. It is represented in the Arabic script for Bashkir as ق.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ҡ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.