Ge with descender
Cyrillic letter used in four languages
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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]
| Ge with descender | |
|---|---|
| Ӷ ӷ | |
| Г̡ г̡ | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [ɣ], [ʁ], [ɢ] |
| History | |
| Development | |
| Variations | Г̡ г̡ |
Usage
Ge with descender is used in the alphabets of the following languages:
| Language | Pronunciation |
|---|---|
| Abkhaz | voiced velar fricative or voiced uvular fricative /ɣ ~ ʁ/ |
| Ket | voiced uvular plosive /ɢ/ or voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/[2] |
| Nivkh | voiced uvular plosive /ɢ/[3][4] |
| Siberian Yupik | voiced uvular plosive /ɢ/[5] |
Variants
Ge with descender can sometimes appear as having a hook instead of a descender (
, 
, sometimes Г̡ г̡, italics: Г̡ г̡), as an allograph found in Ket and sometimes Nivkh, and in the transcription of Eskaleut languages.[6]
Usage
Ge with hook is used in the literature of Nivkh to represent the voiced uvular plosive [ɢ],[7] and is sometimes represented instead with the ge with descender ⟨Ӷ ӷ⟩.[6] It is used, in particular, in the Sakhalin dialects and not in the Amur dialect of the Russian Far East.[8]
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.
Form used in Eskaleut languages, in Ket or in Nivkh.
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Computing codes
| Preview | Ӷ | ӷ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH DESCENDER |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH DESCENDER | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1270 | U+04F6 | 1271 | U+04F7 |
| UTF-8 | 211 182 | D3 B6 | 211 183 | D3 B7 |
| Numeric character reference | Ӷ | Ӷ | ӷ | ӷ |
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 ⟨Ӷ, ӷ⟩ 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 .
