Ꞡ
Ꞡ (lowercase ꞡ) is a letter derived from the Latin alphabet letter G, combined with an oblique bar diacritic. It was used in Latvian orthography The modern Latvian language, Latvian orthography is based on Latin script adapted to phonetic principles, following the Latvian phonology, pronunciation of the language. The standard alphabet consists of 33 letters – 22 unmodified Latin letters ... before 1921. Karl Faulmann reported in 1880 that the character was used to indicate a (i.e., a soft g, the voiced post-alveolar affricate ), as opposed to the "hard g" that was denoted by a regular ''g'' character. References {{Latin-script-stub G-oblique-stroke Latin-script letters Latvian language ...
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G With Stroke
Ǥ (lowercase ǥ), referred to by Unicode as a G with stroke, is a letter used in alphabets for Skolt Sámi in Fennoscandia, Kiowa in North America, Kadiwéu in South America. The position of the stroke within the letter can vary, either due to the particular typeface being used, or due to a preference within the language's writing system (e.g., written Skolt Sami places the stroke lower than Kadiwéu does). In the Latin alphabet for Skolt Sámi, G with stroke denotes the voiced velar fricative . It is sometimes pronounced as a voiced velar approximant instead. It appears word-medially and word-finally, and often appears as a double letter ''ǥǥ'' to indicate that the sound is phonemically geminate, as in ''čååǥǥam'' "comb" or ''šiõǥǥ'' "good". It is also used in some orthographies for the Kiowa language, where it represents a voiceless but unaspirated velar stop (similar to the ''k'' sounds in English ''skate''). In Kadiwéu, G with stroke is used to represen ...
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