Ge with upturn

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Ge (Ґ ґ; also called ghe or ge with upturn, in Unicode: CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER GHE WITH UPTURN) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet representing /ɡ/, like g in the English word go.

In Old Belarusian, the digraph кг was used to denote the sound of Latin g in assimilated words. Later the practice of distinguishing this sound and using the digraph disappeared from Belarusian orthography.

In the 19^th century, the letter ґ, serving an identical purpose, was introduced into the orthographies of Ukrainian and Rusyn language.

In the 1933 reform of Ukrainian orthography, ґ was removed, its function replaced by the letter г. However, ґ continued to be used by the Ukrainian diaspora, and was reintroduced after Ukraine's independence.

During the 20^th century, some Belarusian linguists, notably Yan Stankyevich, promoted both the reintroduction of the practice of pronouncing Latin g in, at least, newly assimilated words, and the adoption of letter ґ to represent it. However, consensus on this has never been reached, and this letter has never been part of standard Belarusian alphabet, seeing only sporadic periods of use. E.g., code of alternative Belarusian orthography rules, based on the proposal of V. Vyachorka and published in 2005, has the letter ґ included in the alphabet.

Code positions

Character encoding	Case	Decimal	Hexadecimal	Octal	Binary
Unicode	Capital	1168	0490	002220	0000010010010000
	Small	1169	0491	002221	0000010010010001
Windows-1251	Capital	165	a5	245	0010100101
	Small	180	b4	264	0010110100
KOI8-U	Capital	189	bd	275	0010111101
	Small	173	ad	255	0010101101

Its HTML entities are: Ґ or Ґ for capital and ґ or ґ for small letter.

See also

• г

References

 

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