Cross-tailed G

ꬶ (cross-tailed G, lowercase only) is a letter of the Latin alphabet.^[1]

Cross-tailed g
ꬶ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabet
Language of origin	Teuthonista
Sound values	[gʲ], [ɣ]
History
Development	(speculated origin) Γ γ 𐌂 C c G g ꬶ
Transliterations	Ꞔ ꞔ
Other
Writing direction	Left-to-Right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

It was used in Teuthonista for the purposes of German dialectology, prior to the development of the International Phonetic Alphabet.^[2][3]

Usage

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^[4] or Edmund Crosby Quiggin's Donegal Irish dialect transcription, in which it represents the voiced velar fricative [ɣ].

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Encoding

Character information

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

References

1. "ꬶ". graphemica. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
2. "Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set" (PDF). unicode.org. 2 June 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
3. Sammlung kurzer Grammatiken deutscher Mundarten (in German). Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel, coll. 1893.
4. Williams, R. A.; Johannson, Arwid (July 1906). "Phonetics of the New High German Language". The Modern Language Review. 1 (4): 345. doi:10.2307/3713467. ISSN 0026-7937.