Cross-tailed G

Cross-tailed g
ꬶ
File:Latin grapheme cross-tailed g.svg
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabet
Language of origin	Teuthonista
Sound values	[gʲ], [ɣ]
History
Development	Pictogram of a Camel (speculated origin) <hiero>T14</hiero> Gimel Gimel Early Greek Gamma Early Etruscan C Γ γ 𐌂 C c G g ꬶ
Transliterations	Ꞔ ꞔ
Other
Writing direction	Left-to-Right

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.

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

Gallery

• File:Start of §206 in Otto Bremer, Deutsche Phonetik, 1893, p. 203.jpg
• File:Table of phonetic symbols for consonants in Arwid Johannson, Phonetics of the New High German language, 1906, page 12.png
• File:Description of ꬶ in Edmund Crosby Quiggin, A dialect of Donegal, 1906, p. 116.png

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