Ge with middle hook (Ҕ ҕ; italics: ''Ҕ ҕ'') is a letter of the

Cyrillic script The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, ...

used in the Abkhaz and Yakut languages to represent the

voiced velar fricative The voiced velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound that is used in various spoken languages. It is not found in Modern English but existed in Old English. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , ...

. In

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, this letter is called "Ghe with middle hook". The letter was invented in 1844 by Andreas Johan Sjögren for the

Ossetian language Ossetian (, , ), commonly referred to as Ossetic and rarely as Ossete (), is an Eastern Iranian language that is spoken predominantly in Ossetia, a region situated on both sides of the Greater Caucasus. It is the native language of the Ossetia ...

from the contraction of Cyrillic Г and

Gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...

. ''Шёгрен А. М.'
Осетинская грамматика с кратким словарем осетинско-российским и российско-осетинским.
— СПб., 1844. — С. 9.

Usage

is the fifth letter of the

Yakut alphabet There are 4 stages in the history of Yakut language, Yakut writing systems: * until the early 1920s – writing based on the Cyrillic alphabet; * 1917–1929 – Novgorodov's writing system, which is based on the Latin alphabet; * 1929–1939 – ...

, placed between and . It was formerly also the seventh letter of the

Abkhaz alphabet Abkhaz and Abkhazian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Abkhazia, a de facto independent region with partial recognition as a sovereign state, otherwise recognized as part of Georgia * Abkhaz people or Abkhazians, persons from Abkhaz ...

, placed between the digraphs and ; it was replaced by the letter .

Computing codes

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{{Cyrillic-alphabet-stub Cyrillic letters with diacritics Letters with hook

Usage

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