Carolingian G

(Carolingian) G.

Capital yogh (left), lowercase yogh (right).

Shape of Insular G.

The Carolingian G or French G is one of two historical variants of the letter G which were in use in the Middle English alphabet; the other variant was the insular G or Irish G. The Carolingian G is named for the Carolingian minuscule script, an examplar of its use.

The Carolingian G stands at the basis of the modern letter G, and eventually replaced the insular G as standard form for the letter. The insular G survived for a while as the letter yogh before being dropped from the English alphabet.

The Carolingian G is the standard letter form for G in all modern alphabets derived from the Latin.

References

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
Related
Derivations Diacritics History ISO/IEC 646 List of letters Numerals Palaeography Punctuation Unicode