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{{Short description|Cyrillic letter used for /q/ in two languages}}
{{Unreliable sources|date=April 2025}}
{{infobox grapheme
| script = [[Cyrillic]]
| type = [[Alphabet]]
| typedesc = ic
| name = Bashkir Qa
| image = Cyrillic letter Bashkir Qa.svg
| imagealt = 
| phonemes = {{IPA|/q/}}
| number = 
| fam1 = 
| letter = Ҡ ҡ
| language = [[Bashkir language]]
}}

'''Bashkir Qa'''  or '''Bashkir Ka''' (Ҡ&nbsp;ҡ; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">''Ҡ&nbsp;ҡ''</span>) is a letter of the [[Cyrillic script]]. It is formed from the [[Ka (Cyrillic)|Cyrillic letter Ka]] (К&nbsp;к) with the top extending horizontally to the left. It is used in the alphabet of the [[Bashkir language]]<ref name=PedersenBashkir>{{Cite book |last=Pedersen |first=Thomas T. |url=https://transliteration.eki.ee/pdf/Bashkir.pdf |title=Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts: Bashkir |date=2004-06-08}}</ref><ref name=OmniglotBashkir>{{Cite web |title=Bashkir language and alphabets |url=https://www.omniglot.com/writing/bashkir.htm |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=www.omniglot.com}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=May 2025}} and (some forms of) [[Siberian Tatar language|Siberian Tatar]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Siberian Tatar language and alphabet |url=https://www.omniglot.com/writing/siberiantatar.htm |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=www.omniglot.com}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=May 2025}} It represents the [[voiceless uvular plosive]] {{IPA|/q/}}.<ref name=PedersenBashkir /><ref name="PedersenUzbek">{{Cite book |last=Pedersen |first=Thomas T. |url=https://transliteration.eki.ee/pdf/Uzbek.pdf |title=Transliteration of Non-Roman scripts: Uzbek |date=20 January 2003}}</ref> 

It corresponds to, and is pronounced the same as, the letter [[Қ]] in [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]], [[Karakalpak language|Karakalpak]], [[Uzbek language|Uzbek]],<ref name=PedersenUzbek /> and (some forms of) Siberian Tatar. It is represented in the [[Arabic script]] for Bashkir as [[ق]].<ref name=PedersenBashkir />

==Computing codes==

{{charmap
|04A0|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter<br />Bashkir Ka
|04A1|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter<br />Bashkir Ka
}}

== See also ==
Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound {{IPA|/q/}}:
*Қ қ : [[Ka with descender|Cyrillic letter Ka with descender]]
*Ӄ ӄ : [[Ka with hook|Cyrillic letter Ka with hook]]
*Ԟ ԟ : [[Aleut Ka|Cyrillic letter Aleut Ka]]
*Ԛ ԛ : [[Qa (Cyrillic)|Cyrillic letter Qa]]
*[[Cyrillic characters in Unicode]]

== References ==
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