G with oblique stroke
Letter of the extended Latin alphabet
Ꞡ (lowercase ꞡ) is a letter derived from the Latin alphabet letter G, combined with an oblique bar diacritic. It was used in Latvian orthography before 1921. Karl Faulmann reported in 1880 that the character was used to indicate a "g lind" (i.e., a soft g, the voiced post-alveolar affricate [d͡ʒ]), as opposed to the "hard g" that was denoted by a regular g character.
| Preview | Ꞡ | ꞡ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G WITH OBLIQUE STROKE | LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH OBLIQUE STROKE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 42912 | U+A7A0 | 42913 | U+A7A1 |
| UTF-8 | 234 158 160 | EA 9E A0 | 234 158 161 | EA 9E A1 |
| Numeric character reference | Ꞡ | Ꞡ | ꞡ | ꞡ |
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- G with oblique stroke - uppercase and lowercase.svg by Denis Moyogo Jacquerye, CC BY-SA 3.0
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