ǥ

See also: Ǥ, ◌̵, and Appendix:Variations of "g"

ǥ	U+01E5, ǥ LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH STROKE

← Ǥ
[U+01E4]

Latin Extended-B

Ǧ →
[U+01E6]


The letter ǥ has a variant with the stroke through the bowl (right), used i.a. in Kiowa.


The letter ǥ also has variants with an open tail.

Prior to 1921, the IPA letter was styled with an open tail bent to the right. Ǥ was replaced by ⟨ɣ⟩ in 1932.

Translingual

Symbol

ǥ

(IPA, obsolete, open-tail variant ⟨ ⟩ and later ⟨ ⟩) a voiced velar fricative; superseded by ɣ
(NAPA, bowl-struck variant ⟨ ⟩ or ⟨ ⟩) A voiced velar fricative (IPA [ɣ])

Kiowa

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /k/

Letter

g̶ (upper case G̶)

(Bowl-struck variant) An unaspirated 'k' sound; alphabetized before g.

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /ɣ/

Letter

ǥ (upper case Ǥ)

The fourteenth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Slovene

Etymology

Letter g with stroke to signify spirantization.

Pronunciation

Sound

Pronunciation of ǥ

• (Standard Slovene, tonal) IPA^(key): [ɡ̞], SNPT: [ǥ]
• (Standard Slovene, non-tonal) IPA^(key): [ɡ̞], SNPT: [ǥ]

Note:different distinctions and accent shifts do not necessarily exclude other and most of them exist in both tonal and non-tonal Slovene.

Symbol

ǥ

(dialectal transcription) Phonetic transcription of sound [ɡ̞].

Usage notes

Although by the description, the corresponding IPA representation should be approximately [ɡ̞], no equivalent IPA representation is given in the source.

References

Kenda-Jež, Karmen (2017 February 27) Fonetična trankripcija [Phonetic transcription]‎^[1] (in Slovene), Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša, archived from the original on January 22, 2022, pages 27–30