Ġ

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

Usage

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

is sometimes used as a phonetic symbol transcribing or.

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

ISO 8859-3 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.