Ҡ

Ҡ , ҡ ( ligature КЪ or K with a crossbar from top left , in Unicode it is called Bashkir K ) - the letter of the expanded Cyrillic alphabet. The 15th letter of the Bashkir and Siberian Tatar alphabets, where it denotes the sound [ q ]. The sound denoted by the letter ҡ occurs in the Orkhon-Yenisei inscriptions : ҡalmysh , ҡatun , ҡapyғ , ҡyrҡyz , ҡul ^[1] .

The phoneme [ҡ] is the correlate of the voiced phoneme [ғ] ; it differs from it in consecutive deafness and weakly pronounced meaning. The sounding is noted in the word Yaғa (“collar”), in other cases, in the root morphemes, the phoneme [ҡ] retains great stability in all positions ( ҡysh - “winter”, aҡ - “white”, baҡyr - “copper”).

Before the initial affixal vowel in the auslaut, the phoneme [ҡ] during agglutination is constantly voiced: tara [ҡ] “comb” - tara [ғ] um - “my comb”, ҡuna [ҡ] “guest” - ҡuna [ғ] um - “appearance ").

In native Bashkir words it is used in combination with back vowels. Of the vowels from the front row, it is combined with [ә] and [and] ( ҡәйн « -“ mother-in-law ”, ҡәл --м -“ pencil ”, ҡиммәт -“ dear, valuable ”, ҡіәфәт -“ look ”) ^[2] .