Ge with breve
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Ge with breve (Г̆ г̆; italics: Г̆ г̆) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It may be a homoglyph of the Latin letter A with breve (Ă ă Ă ă) unless the typeface distinguishes between the Latin and Cyrillic breve.
It is used in the Chuvash and Khanty alphabets. It appears in some Nenets dictionaries as well.[1]
In certain orthographical varieties of Bulgarian, such as in the Primer with Various Instructions, this letter was used for the sound /ɤ/. In modern Bulgarian, this sound is represented by the letter Ъ.
Usage
[edit]In Chuvash, ⟨г̆⟩ represents the mid central vowel [ə], as ⟨a⟩ in word "erg". It is always reduced and can occur stressed only in the first syllable of a polysyllabic word. The sound varies in its phonetic realization from a reduced [ɣ] (like the pronunciation of ⟨gh⟩ in English "sofg") to a labialized version of the ⟨a⟩ in English "all" (with rounded lips). It is sometimes so reduced as to sound coalesced with the following consonant as in сӑтел table, /stel/.
Computing codes
[edit]Preview | Г | г | ̆ | |||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE | COMBINING BREVE | |||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1043 | U+0413 | 1075 | U+0433 | 774 | U+0306 |
UTF-8 | 208 147 | D0 93 | 208 179 | D0 B3 | 204 134 | CC 86 |
Numeric character reference | Г | Г | г | г | ̆ | ̆ |
Named character reference | Г | г |
See also
[edit]- Г г : Cyrillic letter Ge
- Ğ ğ : Latin letter G with breve - a Turkish and Azerbaijani letter
References
[edit]- ^ Tereščenko, Natalʹja Mitrofanovna (2005). Slovarʹ nenecko-russkij i russko-neneckij: okolo 6500 slov ; posobie dlja učaščichsja 1 - 4-ch klassov obščeobrazovatelʹnych učreždenij (3-e izd., ispr. i dop ed.). Sankt-Peterburg: Prosveščenie. ISBN 978-5-09-009175-6.