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In this paper the authors study a \(q\)-analog of the classical Bessel function in a \(q\)-quadratic lattice \(x(s)=(q^z+ q^{-z})/2= \cos\theta\), \(q^z=e^{i\theta}\). For these functions they study several properties in particular they show that they are a solution of the second order difference equation of hypergeometric type introduced by Nikiforov and Uvarov in 1983 (see e.g. \textit{A. F. Nikiforov}, \textit{S. K. Suslov} and \textit{V. B. Uvarov}, Classical orthogonal polynomials of a discrete variable (1991; Zbl 0743.33001)). They also study a Lommel-type and ladder-type formulas. The main contribution is the proof of an orthogonality relation for these \(q\)-functions. In fact they prove that these \(q\)-Bessel functions are orthogonal with respect to an absolute continuous measure supported on \([0,\pi]\). Also, they show that under certain conditions the eigenvalues of the difference equation of hypergeometric type are positive. Finally, they prove some important properties of the zeros of this basic analog of the Bessel functions. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0922.00020].