Gha
| Gha | |
|---|---|
| Ƣ ƣ | |
ꝙ | |
| Other | |
| Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
The letter Ƣ (minuscule: ƣ) has been used in the
People’s Republic of China.[citation needed
]
Historically, it is derived from a handwritten form of the small Latin letter qaf).[3]
In alphabetical order, it comes between G and H.
Modern replacements
- Abaza: ГЪ, гъ
- Ҕ, ҕ
- Avar: ГЪ, гъ
- Azerbaijani: Ğ, ğ
- Ғ, ғ
- Crimean Tatar: Ğ, ğ (Latin), ГЪ, гъ (Cyrillic)
- Dargin (literary): ГЪ, гъ
- Kabardian: ГЪ, гъ (Cyrillic), Ğ, ğ (Latin),
- Karachay-Balkar: ГЪ, гъ
- Karaim: ГЪ, гъ (Cyrillic), G, g (Latin)
- Karakalpak: Ǵ, ǵ (Latin), Ғ, ғ (Cyrillic)
- ع(Arabic)
- Khakas: Ғ, ғ
- Kumyk: ГЪ, гъ
- Kurdish: غ (Arabic), x/ẍ (Latin)
- Г, г (Cyrillic), ع (Arabic)
- Lak: ГЪ, гъ
- ღ(Georgian), Ğ, ğ (Latin)
- Lezgi: ГЪ, гъ
- Nogai: Г, г
- Yakut: Ҕ, ҕ
- Tajik: Ғ, ғ
- غ(Persian), Ғ, ғ (Cyrillic)
- Tat: Ğ, ğ (Latin), ГЪ, гъ (Cyrillic)
- Tatar: Г, г (Cyrillic), Ğ, ğ (Latin)
- Tsakhur: ГЪ, гъ (Cyrillic), Ğ, ğ (Latin)
- Turkmen: G, g
- Tuvan: Г, г
- Udin: Ğ, ğ (Latin), ГЪ, гъ (Cyrillic)
- Ґ, ґ; Ғ, ғ
- Uyghur: غ (Arabic), Ғ, ғ (Cyrillic), Gh, gh (Latin)
- Uzbek: Gʻ, gʻ (Latin), Ғ, ғ (Cyrillic)
Unicode
In
minuscule ƣ is encoded at U+01A3.[4] The assigned names, "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OI" and "LATIN SMALL LETTER OI" respectively, are acknowledged by the Unicode Consortium to be mistakes, as gha is unrelated to the letters O and I.[5] The Unicode Consortium therefore has provided the character name aliases "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GHA" and "LATIN SMALL LETTER GHA".[4]
In popular culture
Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow features an episode purporting to be the story of a Soviet officer, Tchitcherine, dispatched to Kirghizstan to serve on a committee tasked with devising an alphabet for the Kirghiz language. Tchitcherine's particular contribution is the invention of the letter Ƣ, which is thus perhaps the only obsolete letter of a Central Asian language that may be familiar to the non-specialist, English-reading public through a widely circulated novel.
References
- ^ "Some examples of LATIN LETTER OI (gha) (U+01A2, U+01A3) in Tatar and Uighur printing, with remarks on the recommended glyphs" (PDF).
- ^ Культура и письменность Востока [Eastern Culture and Literature] (in Russian). Vol. 2. 1928.
- ^ "Unicode mailing list".
- ^ a b "Unicode chart" (PDF).
- ^ "Unicode Technical Note #27: Known Anomalies in Unicode Character Names".