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Ge with stroke and descender (, ) is an additional letter of the Cyrillic script which was used for the transcription of the Nivkh language family. It is composed of the letter ge with a horizontal bar (or a ghayn) where the base has a descender.

Usage

Ge with stroke and descender is sometimes used in the writing of the Nivkh languages, as a variant of ge with stroke and hook ⟨Ӻ, ӻ⟩.^[1][2]

Computing codes

This letter has not yet been encoded in Unicode. In theory, it is possible to use the letter ge with stroke and hook ⟨Ӻ, ӻ⟩ with fonts or adapted applications in which these have the form of this letter. The letter Ge with cedilla can also be used.

Notes and references

Bibliography

• Berdnikov, A. (March 1998). "Alphabets necessary for various Cyrillic writing systems" (PDF). Cahiers GUTenberg (28–29). doi:10.5802/cg.221.
• Priest, Lorna A. (18 August 2005). Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters (PDF).

See also

• Г (ge)
• Ғ (ghayn)
• Nivkh languages
• Cyrillic script