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Ge with stroke and hook (Ӻ ӻ; italics: ''Ӻ ӻ'') is a letter of the Cyrillic script, formed from the Cyrillic letter Ge (Г г ''Г г'') by adding a horizontal stroke and a hook. In Unicode this letter is called "Ghe with stroke and hook". It is similar in shape to the Latin letter
F with hook F, or f, is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ef'' (pronounced ), and the plural is ''efs''. Hist ...
(Ƒ ƒ) but is unrelated. Ge with stroke and hook is only used in the
Nivkh language Nivkh (; occasionally also Nivkhic; self-designation: Нивхгу диф, ''Nivxgu dif'', ), or Gilyak (), or Amuric, is a small language family, often portrayed as a language isolate, of two or three mutually unintelligible languages spoken b ...
, where it represents the voiced uvular fricative ."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. It can be replaced by the ge with stroke and descender, which has not yet been encoded in Unicode.


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*Г г : Cyrillic Ge *Ғ ғ : Cyrillic Ghayn *Ƒ ƒ : Latin letter F with hook *
Nivkh Nivkh or Amuric or Gilyak may refer to: * Nivkh people The Nivkh, or Gilyak (also Nivkhs or Nivkhi, or Gilyaks; ethnonym: Нивхгу, ''Nʼivxgu'' (Amur) or Ниғвңгун, ''Nʼiɣvŋgun'' (E. Sakhalin) "the people"), are an indigenous et ...
* Cyrillic characters in Unicode


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{{Reflist Cyrillic letters with diacritics Letters with stroke Letters with hook