GÊ» (
g with
turned comma above right;
minuscule
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: gÊ») is the 26th letter of the
Uzbek Latin alphabet, representing the
voiced uvular fricative
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, like the
French r in "rouge". It was adopted in the revision of the alphabet, replacing
Äž.
It was also used for the same sound in the
Karakalpak alphabet
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until 2016, when it was replaced with
Ç´. It corresponds to
Cyrillic Ò’.
Encodings
In Unicode, GÊ» is not encoded as a
precomposed character
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, 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
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as of 2022, the substitution of other characters such as and is very common.
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.
See also
*
Äž
*
Ge with stroke
References
{{Latin script, G, show diacritic=turned comma, show pairs=no
Latin letters with diacritics
Uzbek language