^2 Combinations [jɑ] / [jæ], [jɤ̞] / [je], [ju] / [jʉ] are spelled in Cyrillic as Я я, Е е, Ю ю respectively, and as ya/yä, yı/ye, yu/yü
^3 [q] and [ʁ] are spelled in Cyrillic as К к and Г г, and only in a few words as къ and гъ, whereas in Latin, they're spelled as q and ğ respectively.
^4 Combinations [qæ] / [ʁæ] and [qø] / [ʁø] are spelled in Cyrillic as ка/га and ко/го respectively and in Latin as qä/ğä and qö/ğö.
^5 Only in Arabic loanwords, ь and э are used to indicate the glottal stop: e.g. мәсьәлә and маэмай.
^6 Tatar uses a combination of г / к + ый to indicate Voiced uvular fricative (ğ), and Voiceless uvular plosive (q), respectively, because unlike in Bashkurt, Tatar lacks the Cyrillic letters ғ and ҡ (ğ and q in the Latin script). The Cyrillic letters г and к are used to indicate both k / g and q / ğ in Tatar. Therefore, the spelling of гый / кый in the Tatar Latin script is ği / qi.
^7 While the letter ä is officially part of the current Latin script of Tatar "Zamanälif," some Tatars writing in the Latin script use ə instead. This has unofficially been called the "Neo-alif" alphabet, which disregards ä due to its abundant occurrence in Tatar words compared to the other umlaut letters, creating an undesired aesthetic outcome. The use of ə in Azeri is also named to support the usage.
^8 The low back vowel /ɑ/ changes to [ɒ] when it occurs at the beginning of words, e.g. bara [bɒrɑ] (goes), baralar [bɒrɑlɑr] (they go).
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