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Ge with middle hook

Cyrillic letter used for /ɣ/ in Yukaghir and Yakut From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ge with middle hook
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Ge with middle hook ҕ; italics: Ҕ ҕ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in the Yukaghir and Yakut languages to represent the voiced velar fricative /ɣ/. In Unicode, this letter is called "Ghe with middle hook".[1] The letter was invented in 1844 by Andreas Johan Sjögren for the Ossetian language from the contraction of Cyrillic Г and Gothic 𐌷 (hagl).[2]

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Ҕ is the fifth letter of the Yakut alphabet, placed between Г and Д. It was formerly also the seventh letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, placed between the digraphs Гә and Ҕь; it was replaced by the letter Ӷ.

Ge with middle hook was also used in the Chuvash language, in Ivan Yakovlev's initial 47-letter alphabet.

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