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GGGFF
GGGFF
/f/ in enough
between two vowels, a simple cluster of /gh/ as in pigheaded
The digraph ?gn? may represent
initially, /n/ as in gnome and gnostic
finally, /n/ with a preceding "long" vowel as in sign
between two vowels, a simple cluster of /gn/ as in signature
/nj/ in loanwords such as lasagna
Other languages
Most Romance languages and some Nordic languages also have two main pronunciatio
ns for ?g?, hard and soft. While the soft value of ?g? varies in different Roman
ce languages (/?/ in French and Portuguese, [(d)?] in Catalan, /d??/ in Italian
and Romanian, and /x/ in most dialects of Spanish), in all except Romanian and I
talian, soft ?g? has the same pronunciation as the ?j?.
In Italian and Romanian, ?gh? is used to represent /g/ before front vowels where
?g? would otherwise represent a soft value. In Italian and French, ?gn? is used
to represent the palatal nasal /?/, a sound somewhat similar to the ?ny? in Eng
lish canyon. In Italian, the trigraph ?gli?, when appearing before a vowel or as
the article and pronoun gli, represents the palatal lateral approximant /?/.
Other languages typically use ?g? to represent /g/ regardless of position.
Amongst European languages Dutch is an exception as it does not have /g/ in its
native words, and instead ?g? represents a voiced velar fricative /?/, a sound t
hat does not occur in modern English, but there is a dialectal variation: many N
etherlandic dialects use a voiceless fricative ([x] or [?]) instead, and in sout
hern dialects it may be palatalized to [?]. Nevertheless, word-finally it is alw
ays voiceless in all dialects, including the standard Dutch of Belgium and the N
etherlands. On the other hand, some dialects (like Amelands), may have a phonemi
c /g/.
Faroese uses ?g? to represent /d?/, in addition to /g/, and also uses it to indi
cate a glide.
In Maori (Te Reo Maori), ?g? is used in the digraph ?ng? which represents the ve
lar nasal /?/ and is pronounced like the ?ng? in singer.
In older Czech and Slovak orthographies, ?g? was used to represent /j/, while /g
/ was written as ?g? (?g? with caron).
Related characters
Ancestors, descendants and siblings
?? : Semitic letter Gimel, from which the following symbols originally deriv
e
C c : Latin letter C, from which G derives
G ? : Greek letter Gamma, from which C derives in turn
g: Latin letter script small G
? ? : Cyrillic letter Ge
? ? : Latin letter Yogh
? ? : Latin letter Gamma
? : Latin letter small capital G, used in the International Phonetic Alphabe
t to represent a voiced uvular stop
G with diacritics: G g G g G g G g ? ? G g
Ligatures and abbreviations
? : Paraguayan guaran
Computing codes
Character
G
g
Unicode name
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G
Encodings
decimal
hex
Unicode
71
U+0047 103
UTF-8 71
47
103
67
Numeric character reference
G
EBCDIC family 199
C7
135