Ge with stroke and descender (,
) is an additional letter of the Cyrillic script which was used for the transcription of the Nivkh language family. It is composed of the letter ge with a horizontal bar (or a ghayn) where the base has a descender.
Usage
editGe with stroke and descender is sometimes used in the writing of the Nivkh languages, as a variant of ge with stroke and hook ⟨Ӻ, ӻ⟩.[1][2]
Computing codes
editThis letter has not yet been encoded in Unicode. In theory, it is possible to use the letter ge with stroke and hook ⟨Ӻ, ӻ⟩ with fonts or adapted applications in which these have the form of this letter. The letter Ge with cedilla can also be used.
Notes and references
edit- ^ Berdnikov 1998.
- ^ Priest 2005, p. 4.
Bibliography
edit- Berdnikov, A. (March 1998). "Alphabets necessary for various Cyrillic writing systems" (PDF). Cahiers GUTenberg (28–29). doi:10.5802/cg.221.
- Priest, Lorna A. (18 August 2005). Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters (PDF).
See also
edit- Г (ge)
- Ғ (ghayn)
- Nivkh languages
- Cyrillic script