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Ĝ

Ĝorĝ(G circumflex) is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiced postalveolar affricate (either palato-alveolar or retroflex), and is equivalent to a voiced postalveolar affricate /dʒ/ or a voiced retroflex affricate /dʐ/.

While Esperanto orthography uses adiacriticfor its four postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-basedSlavicalphabets, the base letters are Romano-Germanic.Ĝis based on the letterg, which has this sound inEnglishandItalianbefore the vowelsiande(with some exceptions in English), to better preserve the shape of borrowings from those languages (such asĝeneralafromgeneral) than Slavicđwould.

Ĝ is the ninth letter of the Esperanto alphabet. Although it is written asgxandghrespectively in the x-system and h-system workarounds, it is normally written as G with a circumflex:ĝ.

Uses ofĜin other languages

In Haida, a language isolate, the letterĝwas sometimes used to represent pharyngeal voiced fricative /ʕ/

In Aleut, an Eskimo-Aleut language,ĝrepresents a voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/. The corresponding voiceless Aleut sound is represented by x̂.

InDutch, the letterĝis used in some phrase books and dictionaries for pronunciation help. It represents a plosive [ɡ], becausegis pronounced as a fricative /ɣ/ in Dutch.

In some transcriptions of Sumerian,ĝis used to represent the velar nasal /ŋ/.

Character mappings

Character Ĝ ĝ
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G WITH CIRCUMFLEX LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH CIRCUMFLEX
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 284 U+011C 285 U+011D
UTF-8 196 156 C4 9C 196 157 C4 9D
Numeric character reference Ĝ Ĝ ĝ ĝ

See also

  • Ĉ

  • Ĥ

  • Ĵ

  • Ŝ

  • Ŭ

References

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Oct 1, 2019, 10:29 PM