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{{short description|Letter of the Latin alphabet}}
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[[File:Latin G with stroke - stroke through descender or bowl.svg|thumb|The stroke can be through different parts of the letter, like the Skolt Sámi variation on the left or the Kadiweu variation on the right]]
'''Ǥ''' (lowercase '''ǥ'''), referred to by [[Unicode]] as a '''G with stroke''', is a letter used in alphabets for [[Skolt Sámi]] in [[Fennoscandia]], [[Kiowa language|Kiowa]] in [[North America]], [[Kadiwéu language|Kadiwéu]] in [[South America]]. The position of the stroke within the letter can vary, either due to the particular typeface being used, or due to a preference within the language's writing system (e.g., written Skolt Sami places the stroke lower than Kadiwéu does).

In the Latin alphabet for [[Skolt Sámi]], G with stroke denotes the [[voiced velar fricative]] {{IPAslink|ɣ}}.<ref name=FeistThesis>{{Cite thesis |last=Feist |first=Timothy |title=A Grammar of Skolt Saami |date=2010 |degree=PhD |publisher=University of Manchester |place=Manchester, England |url=https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/a-grammar-of-skolt-saami}}</ref>{{rp|38}}  It is sometimes pronounced as a [[voiced velar approximant]] {{IPAslink|ɰ}} instead. It appears word-medially and word-finally, and often appears as a double letter ''ǥǥ'' to indicate that the sound is phonemically [[geminate]], as in ''čååǥǥam''  "comb" or ''šiõǥǥ'' "good".<ref name=FeistThesis/>{{rp|65}}

It is also used in some orthographies for the [[Kiowa language]], where it represents a voiceless but unaspirated velar stop {{IPAslink|k}} (similar to the ''k'' sounds in English ''skate'').<ref name="Poolaw 2023">{{Cite book|last=Poolaw|first=Dane|date=2023|url=https://learnkiowa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/23GlossaryA.pdf |title=ǥáuiđòᵰ꞉gyà–tʼáukáuidóᵰ꞉gyá : Kiowa–English student glossary}}</ref>{{rp|299}}

In [[Kadiwéu language|Kadiwéu]], G with stroke is used to represent the [[voiced uvular stop]] {{IPA slink|ɢ}}, which may also be pronounced as the [[voiced uvular fricative]] {{IPA blink|ʁ}}.<ref name=Kadiweu>{{Cite book |title=Dicionário da Língua Kadiwéu; Kadiwéu – Português, Português – Kadiwéu |url=https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/74/06/08/74060839706011162756896570533590209458/KDDict.pdf |date=2002 |publisher=SIL |first=Glyn |last=Griffiths}}</ref>{{rp|3}}

The letter has also been used to write [[Proto-Germanic]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Germanic languages {{!}} Consonants {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Germanic-languages#ref603758 |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 May 2025 |language=en |date=27 March 2025}}</ref>{{better source|date=May 2025}} [[Northern Sámi]] (in [[Nils Vibe Stockfleth]]'s 1839 orthography), and in the Old Icelandic orthography proposed in the [[First Grammatical Treatise]], where it represented a [[velar nasal]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}} 

An [[Obsolete and nonstandard symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet|early version]] of the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] used a character similar to ǥ to stand for the [[voiced velar fricative]] {{IPA blink|ɣ}}, although the IPA's representation of the character had a slightly tilted stroke and a slightly bent descender on the g.<ref>{{cite book |last1=International Phonetic Association |editor1-last=Passy |editor1-first=Paul |editor2-last=Jones |editor2-first=Daniel |title=The Principles of the International Phonetic Association |date=1912 |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8rowAQAAMAAJ&ots=Obbw-qFTOA&dq=The%20principles%20of%20the%20International%20Phonetic%20Association.&lr&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q&f=false |access-date=27 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

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