Also known as oi
The letter Ƣ (minuscule: ƣ) was used in the Latin orthographies of various, mostly Turkic languages, such as Azeri or the Jaꞑalif orthography for Tatar. It was also included in the pinyin-based alphabets for Kazakh and Uyghur and in the 1928 Soviet Kurdish Latin alphabet. It usually represents a voiced velar fricative but is sometimes used for a voiced uvular fricative . All orthographies that used the letter were phased out, and it is not supported in all Latin fonts. It can still be seen in pre-1983 books published in the People’s Republic of China. class=skin-invert-image|thumb|upright=0.68
Key facts
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.name
- Gha
- Grapheme.letter
- Ƣ ƣ
- Grapheme.variations
- ğ, ꝙ
- Grapheme.image
- File:Latin letter Ƣƣ.svg
- Grapheme.imageclass
- skin-invert-image
- Grapheme.imagesize
- 200px
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
- Grapheme.language
- Azerbaijani language
- Grapheme.phonemes
- [][]
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+01A2, U+01A3
- Grapheme.alphanumber
- 18 (after Q)
- Grapheme.fam1
- O34
- Grapheme.fam2
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Sinaitic Qup
- Grapheme.fam3
- class=skin-invert-image|20px
- Grapheme.fam4
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Phoenician Qoph
- Grapheme.fam5
- Ϙ ϙ
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- Gha.svg
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- Unicode character
- ƣ
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- Gha
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The letter Ƣ (minuscule: ƣ) was used in the Latin orthographies of various, mostly Turkic languages, such as Azeri or the Jaꞑalif orthography for Tatar. It was also included in the pinyin-based alphabets for Kazakh and Uyghur and in the 1928 Soviet Kurdish Latin alphabet. It usually represents a voiced velar fricative but is sometimes used for a voiced uvular fricative . All orthographies that used the letter were phased out, and it is not supported in all Latin fonts. It can still be seen in pre-1983 books published in the People’s Republic of China. class=skin-invert-image|thumb|upright=0.68|Letters Q and q of Sütterlin script Historically, it is derived from a handwritten form of the small Latin letter q around 1900. The majuscule is then based on the minuscule. Its use for stems from the linguistic tradition of representing such sounds (and similar ones) by q in Turkic languages and in transcriptions of Arabic or Persian (compare kaf and qaf).
In alphabetical order, it comes between G and H.