Ġ (minuscule: ġ) is a letter of the Latin script, formed from G with the addition of a dot above the letter.
Usage Arabic Ġ is used in some Arabic transliteration schemes, such as DIN 31635 and ISO 233, to represent the letter (ġayn). Armenian Ġ is used in the romanization of Classical or Eastern Armenian to represent the letter (ġat).
Chechen Ġ is present in the Chechen Latin alphabet, created in the 1990s. The Cyrillic equivalent is гI, which represents the sound .
Iñupiaq In some dialects of the Iñupiaq language, an Eskaleut language, Ġ is used to represent the voiced uvular fricative .
Irish Ġ was formerly used in Irish to represent the lenited form of G. The digraph gh is now used.
Maltese Ġ is the 7th letter of the Maltese alphabet, preceded by F and followed by G. Pronounced as the English "J" in Jam. It represents the voiced postalveolar affricate .
Old Czech is sometimes (about 16th century) used to represent real [g], to distinguish it from the letter ⟨g⟩, which represented the consonant [j].
Old English is sometimes used in modern scholarly transcripts of Old English to represent or (after ), to distinguish it from pronounced as , which is otherwise spelled identically. The digraph was also used to represent .
Ukrainian is used in some Ukrainian transliteration schemes, mainly ISO 9:1995, as the letter Ґ.
Phonetic transcription is sometimes used as a phonetic symbol transcribing or .
Georgian Ġ is used in the transliteration of Georgian to represent the letter ღ. Computer encoding ISO 8859-3 (Latin-3) includes Ġ at D5 and ġ at F5 for use in Maltese, and ISO 8859-14 (Latin-8) includes Ġ at B2 and ġ at B3 for use in Irish.
Precomposed characters for Ġ and ġ have been present in Unicode since version 1.0. As part of WGL4, it can be expected to display correctly on most computer systems. Appearance Code points Name Ġ U+0120U+0047, U+0307 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G WITH DOT ABOVELATIN CAPITAL LETTER G + COMBINING DOT ABOVE ġ U+0121U+0067, U+0307 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH DOT ABOVELATIN SMALL LETTER G + COMBINING DOT ABOVE
OpenAI's GPT-2 uses U+0120 (Ġ) as a substitute for the space character in its tokens.
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