Graphemes for /q/ and Related Phonemes

Uvulars

/q/ - voiceless uvular stop

Writing System	Grapheme	Example	Notes
ar-Arab	<ق>	تقريري ‘my report’, فقير ‘poor’
dv-Thaa	<އ◌ް>	ޙައްޤު	Only in words of foreign origin. It occurs before ‹ޤ› to indicate a geminate.
dv-Thaa	<ޤ>	ޤައުމު	A letter devised to transliterate the Arabic letter ‹ق›. It occurs only in words of foreign origin.
srr-Arab	<ق>	قࣷلْ ‘field’
srr-Latn	<q>	qol ‘field’
wo-Arab	<ق>	نَقَرْ ‘regret, grief’
wo-Latn	<q>	naqar ‘regret, grief’

/q/ - prenasalized voiceless uvular stop

Writing System	Grapheme	Example	Notes
srr-Arab	<نق>	نقَارِيتْ ‘friendship’, اࣷنقࣹ ‘(article)’, هࣷنقّ ‘grain’	when word final it uses a shadda
srr-Latn	<nq>	nqaariit ‘friendship’, onqe ‘(article)’, honq ‘grain’
wo-Arab	<نق>	جَنقّ ‘virgin’
wo-Latn	<nq>	janq ‘virgin’