Ğ
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Ğ, or ğ, is a letter, known as g-breve in English, used in the Turkish, Azerbaijani, Berber, Crimean Tatar and Tatar languages. The unicode code point is U+011E for the capital letter and U+011F for the small letter.
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[edit] Turkish use
In Turkish, the ğ is known as yumuşak ge 'soft g' and is the ninth letter of the Turkish alphabet. It has no independent pronunciation, but rather indicates a lengthening of the preceding vowel, which normally does not appear in Turkish when the ğ is absent. For example, dağ (mountain) is pronounced something like daa, yağ (oil) is pronounced something like yaa. The ğ must be located after a vowel and can therefore not be the initial letter of a word. When found after the vowels e, i, ö or ü, the ğ is pronounced as y (consonant). Also when found between two vowels, it is sometimes pronounced as y. It is never found at the beginning of a word. The standard romanization of ğ is gh. Sometimes g is used incorrectly. In rare cases, the phonetic ɣ (gamma) or the Greek letter γ is used. Some webpages may also use Ð and ð due to improper encoding; see Turkish characters for the reasons of this.
[edit] Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Tatar use
In Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Tatar, ğ is pronounced as gh (IPA: [ ɣ]), a voiced velar fricative. The Ğ is used as initial letter in Crimean Tatar and Tatar only. For example, Ğabdulla is the Tatar way of writing the name Arabic name Abdullah. (in Tatar language ayn and ghayn Arabic letters were both pronounced as ğ)
[edit] Berber use
In Berber, ğ is pronounced as an English J, like in Jimmy.
[edit] Ğ in names
- Mahir Çağrı (Turkish)
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Turkish)
- Naim Süleymanoğlu (Turkish)
- Toğay bey (Crimean Tatar)
- Ğabdulla Tuqay (Tatar)
- Mustafa Abdülcemil Qırımoğlu (Crimean Tatar)
- Tuğçe Kazaz (Turkish)
[edit] See also
| The ISO basic Latin alphabet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | |
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