The word is derived from Turkish: yoğurt, and is related to the verb yoğurmak: "to be curdled or coagulated; to thicken".[4] The letter ğ was traditionally rendered as "gh" in transliterations of Turkish prior to 1928.[5] In older Turkish, the letter denoted a voiced velar fricative /ɣ/, but this sound is elided between back vowels in modern Turkish, in which the word is pronounced [joˈuɾt], or [joˈɰuɾt].