Ғ ғ — ğ
«ğ» is a consonant of Kazakh, the “Kazakh Cyrillic” script, read as “a throaty gh, like a French r”. The voiced partner of q: a gargled g made deep in the throat, close to the French r. For example, in the word “Тоғыз” — nine. The Kazakh alphabet has 42 letters in total, and this character can be played right here. It appears, for example, in the word “Ағылшынша білесіз бе?” — do you speak English?
In short
| Character | Ғ ғ |
| Name | ğ |
| Sound | a throaty gh, like a French r |
| What it is | a consonant |
In our course the character comes 6th of 42, its neighbours in the course are г and д, appears in 417 words of this site.
How it sounds
The voiced partner of q: a gargled g made deep in the throat, close to the French r
The character in a word
A lone character is hard to remember: memory holds on to meaning, and a letter has none. The word it stands in provides that anchor.
- Тоғызnine
The character in the “the nine letters of their own” group
Everything the familiar alphabet lacks. Six of them are vowels, and vowel harmony rests on them: a word is spoken all-back or all-front, and the ending adjusts to it.
Words with this character
How to remember this character
A single letter is the hardest thing to remember: memory has nothing to hold on to — a character has no meaning. A three-step loop works: see the character, try to recall the sound (for «ğ» it is “a throaty gh, like a French r”, as in the word “Тоғыз”), see the right answer.
And come back to it the next day, not in an hour: a check a day or two later beats a check the same day. Nobody holds the whole alphabet — 42 letters — at once.
- It is better to test yourself the next day than at the end of the same session. That is why a word comes back to you tomorrow.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · g = 0.82 when tested a day or two later, against 0.56 on the same day.
- Studying a little every day gets more into your head than spending the same total time in one sitting.checked many timesDonovan & Radosevich, 1999, Journal of Applied Psychology 84(5) · 63 studies compared, difference d = 0.46 — a sizeable figure for a learning effect.
Frequently asked
How does the Kazakh character ғ read?
As “a throaty gh, like a French r” — it is a consonant of the “Kazakh Cyrillic” script. The voiced partner of q: a gargled g made deep in the throat, close to the French r. For example, in the word “Тоғыз” — nine.
What is the letter ғ called?
Ğ. A character's name and its sound are different things in the Kazakh script: it is called “ğ” and reads as “a throaty gh, like a French r”. Learn the second one: the name only helps when the alphabet is recited aloud.