Cross-tailed G
Letter of the Latin alphabet, a phonetic symbol
ꬶ (lowercase only) is a letter of the Latin alphabet.
ꬶ was used in Teuthonista for the purposes of German dialectology, prior to the development of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
01Usage
In 1893, Otto Bremer used a cross-tailed g to represent a palatalizated voiced velar plosive [gʲ] in his phonetic transcription, but he replaced it with g with inverted breve ⟨g̑⟩. It has also been used in other transcriptions, like Arwid Johannson's Phonetics of the New High German language or Edmund Crosby Quiggin's Donegal Irish dialect transcription, in which it represents the voiced velar fricative [ɣ].
02Encoding
| Preview | ꬶ | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT G WITH CROSSED-TAIL | |
| Encodings | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 43830 | U+AB36 |
| UTF-8 | 234 172 182 | EA AC B6 |
| Numeric character reference | ꬶ | ꬶ |
Sources and credits
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- Latin grapheme cross-tailed g.svg by Aerra Carnicom, CC BY-SA 4.0
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