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 [<nowiki/>g], to distinguish it from the letter ⟨g⟩, which represented the consonant [<nowiki/>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.
{| class="wikitable"
! Appearance
! Code points
! Name
|-
|style="text-align: center;"| Ġ
| U+0120<br>U+0047, U+0307
| <small>LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G WITH DOT ABOVE</small><br><small>LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G</small> + <small>COMBINING DOT ABOVE</small>
|-
|style="text-align: center;"| ġ
| U+0121<br>U+0067, U+0307
| <small>LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH DOT ABOVE</small><br><small>LATIN SMALL LETTER G</small> + <small>COMBINING DOT ABOVE</small>
|}
OpenAI's GPT-2 uses U+0120 (Ġ) as a substitute for the space character in its tokens.