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(minuscule: ) is an additional Latin letter, used in the writing of Maronite Cypriot Arabic, buang mapos, Maltese, inupiak and in certain ALA-LC and ISO Romanizations.
This is the letter G diacrited with a point above.

Use

In inupiak, represents a silver consonant seen uvular .

The above G point was formerly used in Irish writing, which now uses the diagram.

In Maltese, it is the seventh letter of the alphabet, located between F and G. It has the sound.

In ALA-LC romanization, transliteration:
the vertical ka bar of the Azeri written with the Cyrillic alphabet;
the Georgian alphabet ghan;
the dje of Romanian written with the Cyrillic alphabet;
the Ottoman Turkish's "ayn";
the ga of the literary oirate or kalmouk written with the todo bithig.

The above-mentioned g point is also used to transcribe the Arabic script in the novelization DIN 31635 and the romanization ISO 233.

In ISO 9:1995, transliterates the ghai of the Cyrillic alphabet.
In ISO 9985:1996, it transliterates the ghat of the Armenian.

Computer representation
The above-mentioned G point can be represented with the following Unicode characters:
Precomposed (extended Latin B):

Decomposed (basic Latin, diacritic):

Old computer coding also allows to represent the G-point mentioned:
ISO/IEC 8859-3
capital: D5
tiny, F5
ISO/IEC 8859-14
capital : B2
tiny, B3

Bibliography

See also
Item
Latin Alphabet
G (letter)

Letter G
Maltese language
Latin letter with a subscript