Bashkir_Qa
Bashkir Qa
Cyrillic letter used for /q/ in two languages
Bashkir Qa or Bashkir Ka (Ҡ ҡ; italics: Ҡ ҡ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is formed from the Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) with the top extending horizontally to the left. It corresponds to Қ in Kazakh and Karakalpak and other Turkic languages.
It is used in the alphabet of the Bashkir language and Siberian Tatar language and Uzbek language, where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive /q/.
It is represented in the Arabic script as ق.