Ǧ

Unicode|Ǧ/ǧ (G with caron, Unicode code points U+01E6 and U+01E7) is a letter used in several Latin orthographies.

In the Romany and Skolt Sami languages, it represents the palatalized 'g' IPA| [ɟ͡ʝ] .

It has also been used in Czech (and Slovak) orthographies until the middle of the 19th century to represent theconsonant IPA|/ɡ/, whereas "g" stood for IPA|/j/.

In the Berber Latin alphabet, ǧ is pronounced as an English J, like in "Jimmy".

In many transliterations of Arabic it represents the letter ﺝ Unicode|("ǧīm" or "jīm").

ee also

*Ğ