Ġ


Ġ is a letter of the Latin script, formed from G with the addition of a dot above the letter.

Usage

Arabic

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

Armenian

Ġ is used in the romanization of Classical or Eastern Armenian to represent the letter Ղ/ղ.

Chechen

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

Inupiat

Ġ is used in some dialects of Inupiat to represent the voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/.

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.

Old Czech

is sometimes used to represent real g, to distinguish it from the j.

Old English

is sometimes used in scholarly representation of Old English to represent or, to distinguish it from, which is otherwise spelled identically. The digraph was also used to represent.

Ukrainian

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

Phonetic transcription

is sometimes used as a phonetic symbol transcribing or.

Computer encoding

includes Ġ at D5 and ġ at F5 for use in Maltese, and ISO 8859-14 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.
AppearanceCode pointsName
ĠU+0120
U+0047, U+0307
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G WITH DOT ABOVE
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G + COMBINING DOT ABOVE
ġU+0121
U+0067, U+0307
LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH DOT ABOVE
LATIN SMALL LETTER G + COMBINING DOT ABOVE