Modifier letter turned comma

The modifier letter turned comma ʻ is character resembling a comma that has been turned and raised to ascender level. Unlike a comma, it is a letter, not a piece of punctuation. It is used in a number of Polynesian alphabets as a letter representing a glottal stop, such as the ʻokina in Hawaiian. It was also used in the Uzbek alphabet to form the letters Oʻ and Gʻ, which corresponded to Ў and Ғ respectively in the Uzbek Cyrillic alphabet.

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