G with turned comma above right | |
Letter: | Gʻ gʻ |
Script: | Latin script |
Phonemes: | pronounced as /link/ |
Unicode: | U+0047 U+02BB, U+0067 U+02BB |
Fam1: | (speculated origin) |
Fam2: | |
Fam7: | Γ γ |
Fam9: | C |
Fam10: | G |
Usageperiod: | 1995 to present |
Language: | Uzbek language |
Direction: | Left-to-Right |
Type: | alphabet |
Typedesc: | ic |
Gʻ (g with turned comma above right; minuscule: gʻ) is the 26th letter of the Uzbek Latin alphabet, representing the voiced uvular fricative pronounced as /link/, like the French r in "rouge". It was adopted in the revision of the alphabet, replacing Ğ.[1] It was also used for the same sound in the Karakalpak alphabet until 2016, when it was replaced with Ǵ. It corresponds to Cyrillic Ғ.
In Unicode, Gʻ is not encoded as a precomposed character, but rather as a sequence of or and . Since the modifier letter isn't readily typeable on the Uzbek Latin keyboard layouts shipped with Microsoft Windows as of 2022, the substitution of other characters such as and is very common.[2]