G with caron | |
Letter: | Ǧ ǧ |
Variations: | ğ, ĝ, ḡ, ġ, ǥ, ǵ, g̃, ģ, ɠ |
Imagealt: | G with caron |
Script: | Latin script |
Type: | Alphabet |
Typedesc: | ic |
Language: | Czechoslovak language |
Unicode: | U+01E6, U+01E7 |
Fam1: | (speculated origin) |
Fam2: | |
Fam7: | Γ γ |
Fam9: | C |
Fam10: | G |
Usageperiod: | 16th century to present |
Children: | Ğ Ġ |
Sisters: | G Ғ Ґ Ҕ Ӻ چ غ ገ ࠂ ג Ð |
Associates: | ğ, ĝ, ḡ, ġ, ǥ, ǵ, g̃, ģ, ɠ |
Direction: | Left-to-Right |
Ǧ/ǧ (G with caron, Unicode code points U+01E6 and U+01E7) is a letter used in several Latin orthographies.[1]
In the Romany and Skolt Sami languages, it represents the palatalized g pronounced as /[ɟ͡ʝ]/.
It has also been used in Czech (and Slovak) orthographies until the middle of the 19th century to represent theconsonant pronounced as //ɡ//, whereas "g" stood for pronounced as //j//.
In the romanization of Pashto, Persian, and South Azeri, ǧ is used to represent pronounced as /link/ (equivalent to غ).
In the Berber Latin and Resian alphabets, ǧ is pronounced pronounced as /link/ as an English J, like in Jimmy.
In Lakota, ǧ represents voiced uvular fricative pronounced as //ʁ//.
In DIN 31635 Arabic transliteration it represents the letter Arabic: [[ﺝ]] ().