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{{Dist|Apostrophe|ʻOkina|Right single quotation mark|Modifier letter apostrophe}}

The '''modifier letter turned comma''' '''{{char|ʻ}}''' is a [[Character (computing)|character]] found in [[Unicode]] resembling a [[comma]] that has been [[rotated letter|turned]]. Unlike a comma, it is a [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]], not a piece of [[punctuation]]. It is used in a number of [[Polynesian languages|Polynesian]] alphabets as the letter [[ʻOkinaʻokina]] to represent the [[glottal stop]], and in the [[Uzbek alphabet]] to form the letters [[Oʻ]] and [[Gʻ]], which correspond to [[Short U (Cyrillic)|Ў]] and [[Ge with stroke|Ғ]] respectively in the Uzbek Cyrillic alphabet.

==Encoding==