Bashkir Qa

{{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 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 is used in the alphabet of the Bashkir language{{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}}{{Cite web |title=Bashkir language and alphabets |url=https://www.omniglot.com/writing/bashkir.htm |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=www.omniglot.com}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=May 2025}} and (some forms of) Siberian Tatar.{{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}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=May 2025}} It represents the voiceless uvular plosive {{IPA|/q/}}.{{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}}

It corresponds to, and is pronounced the same as, the letter Қ in Kazakh, Karakalpak, Uzbek, and (some forms of) Siberian Tatar. It is represented in the Arabic script for Bashkir as ق.