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{{Short description|Cyrillic letter used for /ɣ~ʁ/ in various languages}}
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|heading = Cyrillic letter <br>Ge with stroke
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|sound=[{{IPAlink|ʁ}}], [{{IPAlink|ɣ}}]|derived=}}

'''Ge with stroke''' (Ғ ғ, italics: ''Ғ ғ'') is a [[Cyrillic alphabet|Cyrillic]] letter which represents the letter [[Ge (Cyrillic)|Г]] with a horizontal stroke. It is used in the [[Bashkir alphabet|Bashkir]], [[Kazakh alphabets|Kazakh Cyrillic]] and [[Uzbek_alphabet#Cyrillic_script|Uzbek Cyrillic]] alphabets where it represents a [[voiced uvular fricative]] {{IPA|/ʁ/}}. Despite having a similar shape, it is not related to the [[F]] of the [[Latin alphabet]].  In [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]], this letter may also represent the [[voiced velar fricative]] {{IPA|/ɣ/}}. In the Uzbek Latin alphabet, this letter corresponds to [[Gʻ]].

The letter is also used in [[Bashkir language|Bashkir]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf |title=Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF |work=The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 |year=2010 |page=42 |access-date=2011-05-20}}</ref> [[Tajik language|Tajik]], [[Karakalpak language|Karakalpak]], [[Shor language|Shor]], [[Siberian Tatar language|Siberian Tatar]] and [[Nivkh languages|Nivkh]] languages, and formerly in [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]]. It is similar to the letter [[Ğ]] found in Turkish and Latin Azerbaijani alphabets.

[[Unicode]] renders this letter as "ghe with stroke". It is possible that this may have been inspired by the [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] [[digamma]].

==Usage==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Language !! Letter order !! [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]
!Notes
|-
|[[Alyutor language|Alyutor]]
|7
|ɣ
|
|-
| [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]] || 5 || ɣ~ʁ
|Replaced by Latin ''Ğ'' in [[Azerbaijan]], still used in [[Dagestan]]
|-
| [[Bashkir language|Bashkir]] || 5 || ɣ~ʁ
|
|-
|[[Karakalpak language|Karakalpak]]
|6
|ɣ
|Replaced by ''Ǵ'' in the Latin alphabet for Karakalpak.
|-
| [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]] || 6 || ɣ~ʁ
|Replaced by ''Ğ'' in the [[Kazakh alphabets|Roman-based script]]
|-
|[[Khakas language|Khakas]]
|5
|ɣ
|
|-
|[[Nivkh languages|Nivkh]]
|6
|ɣ
|
|-
| [[Siberian Tatar language|Siberian Tatar]] || 6 || ɣ~ʁ
|
|-
|[[Shor language|Shor]]
|5
|ɣ
|
|-
|[[Shughni language|Shughni]]
|7
|ʁ
|Represented as ''Jh'' in the corresponding Latin alphabet
|-
| [[Tajik language|Tajik]] || 5 || ɣ~ʁ
|Represented as ''Ƣ''
|-
|[[Uyghur language|Uyghur]]
|6
|ɣ~ʁ
|Equivalent to [[غ]] in the [[Uyghur Arabic alphabet|UEY]], ''Gh'' in the [[Uyghur Latin alphabet|ULY]], and ''Ƣ'' in the [[Uyghur New Script|UYY]].
|-
| [[Uzbek language|Uzbek]] || 34 || ɣ~ʁ
|Equivalent to ''Gʻ'' in the Uzbek Latin alphabet
|-
|[[Yukaghir languages|Yukaghir]]
|6
|ʁ
|
|}<br />

==Computing codes==

{{charmap
|0492|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with stroke
|0493|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with stroke
}}

== See also ==
* [[Ge (Cyrillic)|Ge]]
* [[Kazakh language]]
* [[Uzbek language]]
* [[Azerbaijani language]]
* [[Bashkir language]]
* [[Karakalpak language]]
* [[Siberian Tatar language]]
* [[Tajik language]]
* Ƣ ƣ: [[Gha|Latin letter Gha]] 
* Ğ ğ: [[Ğ|Latin letter G with breve]]
* Gʻ gʻ: [[Gʻ|Latin letter G with turned comma above right]]
* [[Ge with middle hook]]
* [[Ge with stroke and hook]]

==References==
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