Gʻ

Gʻ (g with turned comma above right; minuscule: gʻ) is the 26th letter of the Uzbek Latin alphabet, representing the voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/, like the French r in "rouge". It was adopted in the May 1995 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.

G with turned comma above right
Gʻ gʻ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	alphabetic
Language of origin	Uzbek language
Sound values	/ʁ/
In Unicode	U+0047 U+02BB, U+0067 U+02BB
History
Development	(speculated origin) Γ γ 𐌂 C G Gʻ gʻ
Time period	1995 to present
Other
Writing direction	Left-to-Right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Encodings

In Unicode, Gʻ is not encoded as a precomposed character, but rather as a sequence of U+0047 G LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G or U+0067 g LATIN SMALL LETTER G and U+02BB ʻ MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA. 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 U+0027 ' APOSTROPHE and U+2018 ‘ LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK is very common.^[2] But the use of U+02BB is the only correct option, as the signs U+2018 and U+2019 fulfill the role of secondary quotation marks in the Uzbek Latin.

Character information

Preview	G		g		ʻ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G		LATIN SMALL LETTER G		MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	71	U+0047	103	U+0067	699	U+02BB
UTF-8	71	47	103	67	202 187	CA BB
Numeric character reference	G	G	g	g	ʻ	ʻ

See also

• Ğ
• Ge with stroke