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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.<br /><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Gagauz+alphabet%22">"Gagauz alphabet"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Gagauz+alphabet%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Gagauz+alphabet%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Gagauz+alphabet%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Gagauz+alphabet%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Gagauz+alphabet%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">March 2018</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The modern <b>Gagauz alphabet</b> is a 31-letter <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>-based alphabet modelled on the <a href="/wiki/Turkish_alphabet" title="Turkish alphabet">Turkish alphabet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijani_alphabet" title="Azerbaijani alphabet">Azerbaijani</a>. It is used to write the <a href="/wiki/Gagauz_language" title="Gagauz language">Gagauz language</a>. </p><p>During its existence, it has functioned on different graphic bases and has been repeatedly reformed. Previously, during <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> rule, Gagauz's official script was <a href="/wiki/Cyrillic" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyrillic">Cyrillic</a>, close to the <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_Cyrillic_alphabet" title="Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet">Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet</a>. </p><p>There are 3 stages in the history of Gagauz writing: </p> <ul><li>before 1957 – early attempts to create writing;</li> <li>1957–1993 – writing based on the Cyrillic alphabet;</li> <li>since 1993 – modern writing based on the Latin alphabet.</li></ul> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gagauz_alphabet&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_experiences">Early experiences</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gagauz_alphabet&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early experiences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gagauz was first written in <a href="/wiki/Greek_alphabet" title="Greek alphabet">Greek letters</a> in the late 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-ciachir_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ciachir-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-macris_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-macris-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Orientalist <a href="/w/index.php?title=Otto_Blau&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Otto Blau (page does not exist)">Otto Blau</a> claims that one of the first instances of written Gagauz was with plays of <a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a> being translated into the Gagauz language and written with Greek letters.<sup id="cite_ref-macris_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-macris-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first specimens of Gagauz were collected by the Russian ethnographer <a href="/w/index.php?title=Valentin_Moshkov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Valentin Moshkov (page does not exist)">Valentin Moshkov</a>, who collected folklore texts from the Gagauz in Bessarabia, published in 1904. Until that time, up to the establishment of Gagauz as one of the official languages of the Soviet Union in 1957, the priest <a href="/wiki/Mihail_Ciachir" title="Mihail Ciachir">Mihail Ciachir</a> was the only native speaker to attempt to write in Gagauz. His products were, for the most part, translations of religious texts but were also a history of the Gagauz people, which he first wrote in Romanian and subsequently translated into Gagauz.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The alphabet of these editions contained the letters:<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>a, â, ă, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, î, j, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, ş, t, ţ, u, v, ƶ</b>, as well as di-, tri- and tetragraphs: <b>aa, ââ, ee, ea, eaea, ii, ia, îa, ăă, io, ioio, iu, iuiu, oo, uu, ce, cea, ci, cia, cio, ciu, dj</b> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cyrillic_alphabet">Cyrillic alphabet</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gagauz_alphabet&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Cyrillic alphabet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Beginning in 1957, <a href="/wiki/Cyrillic_script" title="Cyrillic script">Cyrillic</a> was used until 1993. </p><p>The Gagauz alphabet based on the Cyrillic alphabet was introduced by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR dated July 30, 1957. Initially, the Gagauz alphabet was compiled on the basis of the Russian alphabet without additional letters for individual Gagauz sounds, which were indicated by digraphs: <b>Аь аь, Оь оь, Уь уь</b>. In December of the same year, instead of digraphs, three additional letters were added to the Gagauz alphabet: <b>Ӓ ä, Ӧ ö, Ӱ ÿ</b>. In 1968, the letter <b>Ӂ ӂ</b> was added to the Gagauz alphabet. As a result, the Gagauz Cyrillic alphabet took the following form:<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table style="font-size:1.4em; border-color:#000000; border-width:1px; border-style:solid; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#F8F8EF"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">А а </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ӓ ӓ </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Б б </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">В в </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Г г </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Д д </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Е е </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ё ё </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ж ж </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ӂ ӂ </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">З з </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">И и </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Й й </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">К к </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Л л </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">М м </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Н н </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">О о </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ӧ ӧ </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">П п </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Р р </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">С с </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Т т </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">У у </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ӱ ӱ </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ф ф </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Х х </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ц ц </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ч ч </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ш ш </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Щ щ </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ъ ъ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ы ы </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ь ь </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Э э </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ю ю </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Я я </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The letters <i>Ё ё, Щ щ, ъ, ь, Ю ю, Я я</i> were used only in borrowings from the Russian language. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Latin_alphabet">Latin alphabet</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gagauz_alphabet&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Latin alphabet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 13 May 1993, the parliament of the Republic of Moldova passed a decision providing for the official adoption of a <a href="/wiki/Latin-script_alphabet" title="Latin-script alphabet">Latin-script alphabet</a> for the Gagauz language.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was subsequently amended in 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The official Gagauz alphabet adopted is modelled after the modern <a href="/wiki/Turkish_alphabet" title="Turkish alphabet">Turkish alphabet</a>, with the addition of three letters: <span class="nowrap">⟨ä⟩</span> to represent the sound of <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[æ]</span> (as <span class="nowrap">⟨ə⟩</span> in <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijani_alphabet" title="Azerbaijani alphabet">Azeri</a>); <span class="nowrap">⟨ê⟩</span> to represent the <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ə]</span> (schwa) sound, which does not exist in Turkish; and <span class="nowrap">⟨ț⟩</span> or <span class="nowrap">⟨ţ⟩</span> to represent the sound <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ts]</span> as in <a href="/wiki/Romanian_alphabet" title="Romanian alphabet">Romanian</a>. On the other hand, unlike <a href="/wiki/Crimean_Tatar_alphabet" title="Crimean Tatar alphabet">Crimean Tatar</a>, Turkish, and some other Turkic languages, Gagauz does not have the letter <span class="nowrap">⟨ğ⟩</span>, which had become completely silent in the Gagauz language. Note that cedillas should be used instead of commas for Ç, Ş, and Ţ for consistency, since C with comma does not exist in Romanian and Turkish uses cedillas for Ç and Ş, although Ț is often seen. </p><p>In their standard order, the letters of the Gagauz alphabet are: </p> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/A" title="A">A</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C3%84" title="Ä">Ä</a>, <a href="/wiki/B" title="B">B</a>, <a href="/wiki/C" title="C">C</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C3%87" title="Ç">Ç</a>, <a href="/wiki/D" title="D">D</a>, <a href="/wiki/E" title="E">E</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C3%8A" title="Ê">Ê</a>, <a href="/wiki/F" title="F">F</a>, <a href="/wiki/G" title="G">G</a>, <a href="/wiki/H" title="H">H</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dotless_I" title="Dotless I">I</a>, <a href="/wiki/I-dot" class="mw-redirect" title="I-dot">İ</a>, <a href="/wiki/J" title="J">J</a>, <a href="/wiki/K" title="K">K</a>, <a href="/wiki/L" title="L">L</a>, <a href="/wiki/M" title="M">M</a>, <a href="/wiki/N" title="N">N</a>, <a href="/wiki/O" title="O">O</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C3%96" title="Ö">Ö</a>, <a href="/wiki/P" title="P">P</a>, <a href="/wiki/R" title="R">R</a>, <a href="/wiki/S" title="S">S</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C5%9E" title="Ş">Ş</a>, <a href="/wiki/T" title="T">T</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C5%A2" title="Ţ">Ţ</a>, <a href="/wiki/U" title="U">U</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C3%9C" title="Ü">Ü</a>, <a href="/wiki/V" title="V">V</a>, <a href="/wiki/Y" title="Y">Y</a>, <a href="/wiki/Z" title="Z">Z</a>.</dd></dl> <p>Note that <a href="/wiki/I-dot" class="mw-redirect" title="I-dot">dotted</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dotless_I" title="Dotless I">dotless I</a> are separate letters, each with its own uppercase and lowercase form. <i>I</i> is the capital form of <i>ı</i>, and <i>İ</i> is the capital form of <i>i</i>. The Gagauz alphabet has no q, w or x. Instead, those characters are transliterated into Gagauz as k, v and ks, respectively. </p> <table style="font-size:1.4em; border-color:#000000; border-width:1px; border-style:solid; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#F8F8EF"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">A a </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ä ä </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">B b </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">C c </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ç ç </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">D d </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">E e </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ê ê </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[ɑ] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[æ~ɛ] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[b] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[dʒ] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[tʃ] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[d] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[e] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[ə] </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">F f </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">G g </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">H h </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">I ı </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">İ i </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">J j </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">K k </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">L l </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[f] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[g, ɟ] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[x, h~ħ] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[ɯ~ɨ] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[i] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[ʒ] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[k, c] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[l, ʎ] </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">M m </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">N n </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">O o </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ö ö </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">P p </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">R r </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">S s </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ş ş </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[m] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[n, ɲ] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[o] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[ø] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[p] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[r] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[s] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[ʃ] </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">T t </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ţ ţ </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">U u </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Ü ü </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">V v </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Y y </td> <td style="width:3em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">Z z </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[t] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[ts] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em;; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[u] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[y] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[w, vʲ] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[j] </td> <td style="font-size:0.8em; width:1em; text-align:center; padding: 3px;">[z] </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gagauz_alphabet&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-ciachir-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ciachir_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">M. 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