Ġ

Ġ

ġ

Ġ (minuscule: ġ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from G with the addition of a dot above the letter. The dot is sometimes placed within the capital, rather than above.

Usage

Arabic

Ġ is used in some Arabic transliteration schemes, such as DIN 31635 and ISO 233, to represent the letter غ (ġain).

Chechen

Ġ in Chechen Latin-based alphabet is an analog of Cyrillic гI.

Irish

Ġ was formerly used in Irish to represent the lenited form of G. The digraph gh is now used.

Maltese

Ġ is the 7th letter of the Maltese alphabet, preceded by F and followed by G. It represents the sound [dʒ].

Old English

Ġ is sometimes used in scholarly representation of Old English to represent a soft g pronounced /j/, to distinguish it from /g/ which is otherwise spelled identically. The two sounds were not distinguished in Anglo-Saxon spelling.

Ukrainian

Ġ is used in some Ukrainian transliteration schemes, mainly ISO 9:1995, as the letter Ґ.

Phonetic transcription

ġ is sometimes used as a phonetic symbol transcribing [ɣ] or [ŋ].

Computer encoding

ISO 8859-3 (Latin-3) includes Ġ at D5 and ġ at F5 for use in Maltese, and ISO 8859-14 (Latin-8) includes Ġ at B2 and ġ at B3 for use in Irish.

Precomposed characters for Ġ and ġ have been present in Unicode since version 1.0. As part of WGL4, it can be expected to display correctly on most computer systems.

Appearance	Code points	Name
Ġ	U+0120 U+0047, U+0307	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G WITH DOT ABOVE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G + COMBINING DOT ABOVE budalo
ġ	U+0121 U+0067, U+0307	LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH DOT ABOVE LATIN SMALL LETTER G + COMBINING DOT ABOVE

The ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter G with diacritics
Ǵǵ	Ğğ	Ĝĝ	Ǧǧ	Ġġ	Ģģ	Ḡḡ	Ǥǥ	Ɠɠ	ᶃ
Letters using dot above sign ( ◌̇ )
Ȧȧ	Ḃḃ	Ċċ	Ḋḋ	Ėė	Ḟḟ	Ġġ	Ḣḣ	İ ı	Ṁṁ	Ṅṅ	Ȯȯ	Ṗṗ	Ṙṙ	Ṡṡẛ	Ṫṫ	Ẇẇ	Ẋẋ	Ẏẏ	Żż
Related
History Palaeography Derivations Diacritics Punctuation Numerals Unicode List of letters ISO/IEC 646