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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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Turkish use

Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Tatar use

Ğ in names

See also

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 (although when articulated it sounds similar to Guttural R), 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 like, ''yağ'' (oil) is pronounced like like . 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 like -but not same as- . Also when found between two vowels, it is sometimes pronounced like -but not same as- '. Sometimes g is used incorrectly. In rare cases, the phonetic (gamma) or the Greek letter γ is used. Some webpages may also use Ð and ð due to improper encoding; see for the reasons of this.

Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Tatar use

In Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Tatar, ğ is pronounced as ''gh'' (IPA: ), 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')

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)

See also

★ , Ġayn, Ghayn (Cyrillic)