Insular G
Insular G is a form of the letter g somewhat resembling an ezh, used in the medieval insular script of Great Britain and Ireland. It was first used in the Roman Empire in Roman cursive, then it appeared in Irish half uncial script, and after it had passed into Old English, it developed into the Middle English letter yogh. Middle English, having reborrowed the familiar Carolingian g from the Continent, began to use the two forms of g as separate letters.
Letter
The lowercase insular g was used in Irish linguistics as a phonetic character for, and on this basis is encoded in the Phonetic Extensions block of Unicode 4.1 as U+1D79. Its capital was introduced in Unicode 5.1 at U+A77D. The insular is one of several insular letters encoded into Unicode for phonetics use. Few fonts will display all of the symbols, but more than a few will display the lowercase insular g and the tironian et. Two fonts that support the other characters too are Junicode and Tehuti.Image:Evolution of minuscule.svg|thumb|right|The relationship between different fonts, showing the development of the minuscule