Gamma
Third letter of the Greek alphabet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with the Latin letter Y, the Cyrillic letter У, or the Church Slavonic Cyrillic letter Uk (Ꙋ).
This article is about the Greek letter Gamma Γ (and γ) as used in various fields. For the Latin forms like Ɣ see Gamma § Phonetic transcription. For other uses, see Gamma (disambiguation).
Gamma (/ˈɡæmə/;[1] uppercase Γ, lowercase γ; Greek: γάμμα gámma) is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 3. In Ancient Greek, the letter gamma represented a voiced velar stop IPA: [ɡ]. In Modern Greek, this letter normally represents a voiced velar fricative IPA: [ɣ], except before either of the two front vowels (/e/, /i/), where it represents a voiced palatal fricative IPA: [ʝ]; while /g/ in foreign words is instead commonly transcribed as γκ).
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In the International Phonetic Alphabet and other modern Latin-alphabet based phonetic notations, it represents the voiced velar fricative.