Insular G
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Insular G (
) is a form of the letter g resembling a tailed z, used in the Britain and Ireland. It was first used by the Irish, passed into Old English, and developed into the Middle English letter yogh; Middle English, having reborrowed the familiar Carolingian g from the Continent, thus used two forms of g as separate letters.
The lowercase insular g was used in Irish linguistics as a phonetic character for the voiced velar fricative, IPA /ɣ/, and on this basis is encoded in the Phonetic Extensions block of Unicode as of March 2005 as U+1D79: ᵹ.
The insular form of g is still used in traditional Gaelic script.
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- Drawing an insular G (here mistaken for yogh)
- On the derivation of YOGH and EZH shows insular g in several typefaces.
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