Ge With Stroke And Descender
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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
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language family. It is composed of the letter ge with a horizontal
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(or a
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) 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 Ge with stroke and hook (Ӻ ӻ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, formed from the Ge (Cyrillic), Cyrillic letter Ge (Г г ''Г г'') by adding a horizontal stroke and a hook. In Unicode this letter is called "Ghe ...
.


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 Ge with stroke and hook (Ӻ ӻ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, formed from the Ge (Cyrillic), Cyrillic letter Ge (Г г ''Г г'') by adding a horizontal stroke and a hook. In Unicode this letter is called "Ghe ...
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

* * {{Cite book , last=Priest , first=Lorna A. , url=http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/render_download.php?&format=file&media_id=Cyrillic_2005-08-09&filename=N2933.pdf , title=Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters , date=18 August 2005 , language=en


See also

* Г (ge) * Ғ (ghayn) * Nivkh languages * Cyrillic script Cyrillic letters with diacritics