Ge with descender

Ge with descender is a letter of the Cyrillic script formed from the Cyrillic letter Ge by adding a descender. In Unicode this letter is called "Ghe with descender".

Usage

Ge with descender is used in the alphabets of the following languages:

Language	Pronunciation
Abkhaz	voiced velar fricative or voiced uvular fricative
Ket	voiced uvular plosive or voiced uvular fricative
Nivkh	voiced uvular plosive
Siberian Yupik	voiced uvular plosive

Variants

Ge with hook is an allograph of the letter ge with descender of the Cyrillic script. It has been used in writing Ket and sometimes Nivkh, and in the transcription of Eskaleut languages.

Usage

Ge with hook is used in the literature of Nivkh to represent the voiced uvular plosive , and is sometimes represented instead with the ge with descender. It is used, in particular, in the Sakhalin dialects and not in the Amur dialect of the Russian Far East.

Forms and variants

Ge with hook has the hook attached to the right in Nivkh in Taksami 1996, as well as Eskaleut languages works such as Ainana 1994, and Vakhtin 2003, in the Chaplino dialect in Menovchtchikov 1988, Menovchtchikov and Vakhtin 1990, Sigunylik 2003, in Naukan Yupik in Menovchtchikov 1975.

Computing codes

Ge with hook

Ge with hook has not yet been encoded in Unicode. In theory, it is possible to use the letter ge with descender with fonts or adapted applications in which these have the form of this letter, however, it is possible to be in some way approximate it as ge with a combining palatal hook so <Г̡> for uppercase and <г̡> for lowercase. This form is sometimes used instead of .