Ge_with_stroke_and_hook

Ge with stroke and hook

Ge with stroke and hook

Cyrillic letter used for /ʁ/ in Nivkh


Ge with stroke and hook ӻ; italics: Ӻ ӻ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, formed from the Cyrillic letter Ge г Г г) by adding a horizontal stroke and a hook. In Unicode this letter is called "Ghe with stroke and hook".[1] It is similar in shape to the Latin letter F with hook (Ƒ ƒ) but is unrelated.

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Ge with stroke and hook is only used in the Nivkh language, where it represents the voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/, like the r in French.[2]

It can be replaced by the ge with stroke and descender, which has not yet been encoded in Unicode.

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References

  1. "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF". pp 38–43 of The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 (2010). p. 43. http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf Accessed 2011-04-23.
  2. "Nivkh (Нивхгу/Nivxgu)". Wolfram Siegel. in Omniglot: Writing systems & languages of the world. Simon Ager (ed.). http://www.omniglot.com/writing/nivkh.htm Accessed 2011-04-23.

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