Ge with descender
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Ge with descender (Ӷ ӷ; italics: Ӷ ӷ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script formed from the Cyrillic letter Ge (Г г Г г) by adding a descender. In Unicode this letter is called "Ghe with descender".[1]
Usage
Ge with descender is used in the alphabets of the following languages:
| Language | Pronunciation |
|---|---|
| Abkhaz | voiced velar fricative or voiced uvular fricative Script error: No such module "IPA". |
| Ket | voiced uvular plosive Script error: No such module "IPA". or voiced uvular fricative Script error: No such module "IPA".[2] |
| Nivkh | voiced uvular plosive Script error: No such module "IPA".[3][4] |
| Siberian Yupik | voiced uvular plosive Script error: No such module "IPA".[5] |
Variants
Ge with hook (File:Cyrillic capital letter Ghe with hook.svg, File:Cyrillic small letter Ghe with hook.svg, sometimes Г̡ г̡, italics: Г̡ г̡) is an allograph of the letter ge with descender Template:Angle bracket of the Cyrillic script.Template:Sfn It has been used in writing Ket and sometimes Nivkh, and in the transcription of Eskaleut languages.
Usage
Ge with hook is used in the literature of Nivkh to represent the voiced uvular plosive [ɢ],Template:Sfn and is sometimes represented instead with the ge with descender Template:Angle bracket.Template:Sfn It is used, in particular, in the Sakhalin dialects and not in the Amur dialect of the Russian Far East.Template:Sfn
Forms and variants
Ge with hook has the hook attached to the right in Nivkh in Taksami 1996, as well as Eskaleut languages works such as Ainana 1994, and Vakhtin 2003, in the Chaplino dialect in Menovchtchikov 1988, Menovchtchikov and Vakhtin 1990, Sigunylik 2003, in Naukan Yupik in Menovchtchikov 1975.
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Form used in Eskaleut languages, in Ket or in Nivkh.
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Computing codes
Ge with hook
Ge with hook has not yet been encoded in Unicode. In theory, it is possible to use the letter ge with descender Template:Angle bracket with fonts or adapted applications in which these have the form of this letter, however, it is possible to be in some way approximate it as ge with a combining palatal hook so <Г̡> for uppercase and <г̡> for lowercase. This form is sometimes used instead of File:Cyrillic capital letter Ghe with hook.svg File:Cyrillic small letter Ghe with hook.svg.
See also
- Г г : Cyrillic letter Ge
- Ҕ ҕ : Cyrillic letter Ge with middle hook
- Ғ (ghayn)
- Nivkh languages
- Cyrilic script
References
Sources
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- ↑ "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF". pp 38–43 of The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 (2010). p. 43. http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf Accessed 2011-04-23.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ "Nivkh (Нивхгу/Nivxgu)". Wolfram Siegel. in Omniglot: Writing systems & languages of the world. Simon Ager (ed.). http://www.omniglot.com/writing/nivkh.htm Accessed 2011-04-23.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".