Ġ

Ġ is a letter of the Latin script, formed from G with the addition of a dot above the letter.

Usage

Arabic

Ġ is used in some Arabic transliteration schemes, such as DIN 31635 and ISO 233, to represent the letter غ.

Armenian

Ġ is used in the romanization of Classical or Eastern Armenian to represent the letter Ղ/ղ.

Chechen

Ġ is present in the Chechen Latin alphabet, created in the 1990s. The Cyrillic equivalent is гI, which represents the sound.

Iñupiaq

In some dialects of the Iñupiaq language, an Eskaleut language, Ġ is used to represent the voiced uvular fricative.

Irish

Ġ was formerly used in Irish to represent the lenited form of G. The digraph gh is now used.

Maltese

Ġ is the 7th letter of the Maltese alphabet, preceded by F and followed by G. Pronounced as the English "J" in Jam. It represents the voiced postalveolar affricate.

Old Czech

is sometimes used to represent real , to distinguish it from the letter ⟨g⟩, which represented the consonant .

Old English

is sometimes used in modern scholarly transcripts of Old English to represent or , to distinguish it from pronounced as, which is otherwise spelled identically. The digraph was also used to represent.

Ukrainian

is used in some Ukrainian transliteration schemes, mainly ISO 9:1995, as the letter Ґ.

Phonetic transcription

is sometimes used as a phonetic symbol transcribing or.

Georgian

Ġ is used in the transliteration of Georgian to represent the letter ღ.

Computer encoding

includes Ġ at D5 and ġ at F5 for use in Maltese, and ISO 8859-14 includes Ġ at B2 and ġ at B3 for use in Irish.
Precomposed characters for Ġ and ġ have been present in Unicode since version 1.0. As part of WGL4, it can be expected to display correctly on most computer systems.

Appearance	Code points	Name
Ġ	U+0120 U+0047, U+0307	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G WITH DOT ABOVE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G + COMBINING DOT ABOVE
ġ	U+0121 U+0067, U+0307	LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH DOT ABOVE LATIN SMALL LETTER G + COMBINING DOT ABOVE

OpenAI's GPT-2 uses U+0120 as a substitute for the space character in its tokens.