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Ge with middle hook

Ge with middle hook

Cyrillic letter used for /ɣ/ in Yukaghir and Yakut


Ge with middle hook ҕ; italics: Ҕ ҕ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in the Yukaghir and Yakut languages to represent the voiced velar fricative /ɣ/. In Unicode, this letter is called "Ghe with middle hook".[1] The letter was invented in 1844 by Andreas Johan Sjögren for the Ossetian language from the contraction of Cyrillic Г and Gothic 𐌷 (hagl).[2]

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Usage

Ҕ is the fifth letter of the Yakut alphabet, placed between Г and Д. It was formerly also the seventh letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, placed between the digraphs Гә and Ҕь; it was replaced by the letter Ӷ.

Ge with middle hook was also used in the Chuvash language, in Ivan Yakovlev's initial 47-letter alphabet.

Computing codes

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References

  1. "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF". pp 38–43 of The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 (2010). p. 42. http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf Accessed 2011-04-25.



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