Insular G (Ᵹ ᵹ; image: 
) is a form of the letter g (somewhat resembling a tailed z, but not to be confused therewith), used in Britain and Ireland. It was first used by the Irish, passed into Old English, and developed into the Middle English letter yogh (Ȝ ȝ). Middle English, having re-borrowed the familiar Carolingian g from the Continent, thus used two forms of g as separate letters.
The lowercase insular g (ᵹ) 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 4.1 (March 2005) as U+1D79. Its capital (Ᵹ) was introduced in Unicode 5.1 (April 2008) at U+A77D.
The insular form of g is still used in traditional Gaelic script.
See also
External links
- Drawing an insular G (here mistaken for yogh)
- Michael Everson's article On the derivation of YOGH and EZH shows insular g in several typefaces.
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