Ġ (minuscule: ġ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from G with the addition of a dot above the letter. G is the seventh letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled gee or occasionally ge (dʒiː Overdot See also Anusvara Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark In Arabic romanization The dot is sometimes placed within the capital, rather than above.
Usage
Arabic
Ġ is used in some Arabic transliteration schemes, such as DIN 31635 and ISO 233, to represent the letter غ (ġayn). Different approaches and methods for the Romanization of Arabic exist DIN 31635 is a DIN standard for the Transliteration of the Arabic alphabet adopted in 1982 The International standard ISO 233 establishes a system for Arabic transliteration ( Romanization) Ghain, ghayn, or (ar ﻍ is one of the six letters in the Arabic alphabet not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others
Chechen
Ġ in Chechen Latin-based alphabet is an analog of Cyrillic гI.
Irish
Ġ was formerly used in Irish to represent the lenited form of G. Irish (ga ''Gaeilge'' is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish. Lenition is a kind of Consonant mutation that appears in many Languages Along with assimilation, it is one of the primary sources of historical change G is the seventh letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled gee or occasionally ge (dʒiː The digraph gh is now used. A digraph, bigraph, or digram is a pair of characters used to write one Phoneme (distinct sound or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond Gh is a digraph found in many languages In Latin-based orthographies English In English, gh historically represented (the
Maltese
Ġ is the 7th letter of the Maltese alphabet, preceded by F and followed by G. The Maltese alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet with the addition of some letters with Diacritic marks and Digraphs It is used to write the Maltese F is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ef or eff (ɛf G is the seventh letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled gee or occasionally ge (dʒiː It represents a voiced postalveolar affricate (IPA: /dʒ/). The voiced palato-alveolar affricate, also described as voiced domed postalveolar affricate, is a type of Consonantal sound used in some spoken Languages The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA is a system of phonetic notation based on the Latin alphabet, devised by the International Phonetic
Old English
Ġ is sometimes used in scholarly representation of Old English to represent a soft g pronounced /j/, to distinguish it from /g/ which is otherwise spelled identically. The two sounds were not distinguished in Anglo-Saxon spelling.
Ukrainian
Ġ is used in some Ukrainian transliteration schemes, mainly ISO 9:1995, as the letter Ґ. The romanization or latinization of Ukrainian is the representation of the Ukrainian language using Latin letters. The International standard ISO 9 establishes a system for the Transliteration into Latin characters of Cyrillic characters constituting the alphabets Ge (Ґ ґ italic Ґґ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet mainly used in Ukrainian, representing the
Phonetic transcription
ġ is sometimes used as a phonetic symbol. Phonetic transcription (or phonetic notation) is the visual system of symbolization of the sounds occurring in spoken human Language. It can represent:
Computer encoding
ISO 8859-3 (Latin-3) includes Ġ at D5 and ġ at F5 for use in Maltese, and ISO 8859-14 (Latin-8) includes Ġ at B2 and ġ at B3 for use in Irish. The voiced velar fricative is a type of Consonantal sound used in various spoken Languages The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA is a system of phonetic notation based on the Latin alphabet, devised by the International Phonetic The velar nasal is a type of Consonantal sound used in some spoken Languages The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA is a system of phonetic notation based on the Latin alphabet, devised by the International Phonetic ISO 8859-3, also known as Latin-3 or "South European" is an 8-bit Character encoding, part of the ISO 8859 standard ISO 8859-14, also known as Latin-8 or "Celtic" is an 8-bit Character encoding, part of the ISO 8859 standard
Precomposed characters for Ġ and ġ have been present in Unicode since version 1. A precomposed character (alternatively decomposable character) is a Unicode entity that can be decomposed into an equivalent string of several other characters In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's 0. As part of WGL4, it can be expected to display correctly on most computer systems. Windows Glyph List 4, or more commonly WGL4 for short also known as the Pan-European character set, is a character repertoire on recent Microsoft's operating
| Appearance | Code points | Name |
|---|
| Ġ | U+0120
U+0047, U+0307 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G WITH DOT ABOVE
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G + COMBINING DOT ABOVE |
| ġ | U+0121
U+0067, U+0307 | LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH DOT ABOVE
LATIN SMALL LETTER G + COMBINING DOT ABOVE |
ISO 646 is an ISO standard that since 1972 has specified a 7- Bit character code from which several national standards are derived The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is a (eɪ plural B is the second letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled bee or occasionally be (biː plural bees. C is the third letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled cee or occasionally ce (siː D is the fourth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled dee or occasionally de (diː E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled e (iː plural es or ees (also written E's E F is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ef or eff (ɛf G is the seventh letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled gee or occasionally ge (dʒiː I is the ninth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its English name is i (aɪ J is the tenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet; it was the last of the 26 letters to be added K is the eleventh letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled kay (keɪ L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is el or occasionally ell (ɛl M is the thirteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled em (ɛm N is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled en (ɛn O is the fifteenth letter of the modern Latin Alphabet. Its name in English is spelled o (oʊ plural usually o's or os; sometimes P is the sixteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled pee or occasionally pe (piː Q is the seventeenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled cue (kjuː R is the eighteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ar (ɑr pronounced or) S is the nineteenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ess or occasionally es (ɛs generally es- T is the twentieth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled tee or occasionally te (tiː U is the twenty-first letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled u (juː V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled vee or occasionally ve (viː W is the twenty-third letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled double-u (ˈdʌbljuː X is the twenty-fourth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ex or occasionally ecks (ɛks plural exes The letter Y is the twenty-fifth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the modern Latin alphabet. A diacritic ( also called a diacritic or diacritical mark, point, or sign, is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation History An early precursor of the acute accent was the apex, used in Latin inscriptions to mark long vowels. Ğ, or ğ, is a letter known as g- Breve in English, used in the Turkish, Azerbaijani, Berber, Crimean The grapheme Č (Latin C with Háček) is used in various contexts usually denoting the Voiceless postalveolar affricate Consonant not unlike Ǧ / ǧ ( G with Caron, Unicode code points U+01E6 and U+01E7 is a letter used in several Latin orthographies A macron, from Greek el μακρόv ( makrón) meaning "long" is a Diacritic ¯ placed over or under a Vowel which was originally The g-stroke character Ǥ / ǥ is a letter of the Latin Skolt Sami alphabet denoting the partially voiced palatal spirant (i G with hook (majuscule Ɠ, minuscule ɠ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. The palatal hook ( ̡ is a type of hook diacritic formerly used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent Palatalized consonants. Overdot See also Anusvara Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark In Arabic romanization Ȧ ( minuscule: ȧ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from A with the addition of a dot above the letter Overdot See also Anusvara Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark In Arabic romanization The Grapheme Ě, ě ( E with Háček) is used in the Czech alphabet. Overdot See also Anusvara Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark In Arabic romanization Ė ė is the 9th Letter in the Lithuanian alphabet. It was coined by Daniel Klein, the author of the first grammar of the Lithuanian language Ḏ ( minuscule: ḏ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from D with the addition of an Underline Overdot See also Anusvara Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark In Arabic romanization Overdot See also Anusvara Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark In Arabic romanization Overdot See also Anusvara Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark In Arabic romanization Overdot See also Anusvara Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark In Arabic romanization Overdot See also Anusvara Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark In Arabic romanization Overdot See also Anusvara Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark In Arabic romanization Overdot See also Anusvara Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark In Arabic romanization Overdot See also Anusvara Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark In Arabic romanization Overdot See also Anusvara Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark In Arabic romanization Ẋ is a letter in the Chechen language used to represent the Voiceless pharyngeal fricative, ħ For a more detailed treatment of this topic see the German-language Wikipedia article ß is nearly unique among the letters of the Latin Ż is a letter in the Polish, Kashubian and Maltese alphabets The Latin alphabet originated in the 7th century BC, undergoing a history of 2500 years before emerging as one of the dominant Writing systems in use today Palaeography, palæography ( British) or paleography ( American) (from the Greek grc παλαιός palaiós, Variants of the Latin alphabet are used by the Writing systems of many languages throughout the world A diacritic ( also called a diacritic or diacritical mark, point, or sign, is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation Roman numerals are a Numeral system originating in ancient Rome, adapted from Etruscan numerals. Unicode as of version 51 defines the following ranges for encoding the Latin alphabet and derived characters See also Mapping of Unicode characters List of Latin letters. Basic alphabet Extensions and ligatures Letters with diacritics Digraphs trigraphs and tetragraphs
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