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Ge with middle hook

Ge with middle hook (Ҕ&nbsp;ҕ; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">Ҕ&nbsp;ҕ</span>) is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in the Yukaghir and Yakut languages to represent the voiced velar fricative . In Unicode, this letter is called "Ghe with middle hook". The letter was invented in 1844 by Andreas Johan Sjögren for the Ossetian language from the contraction of Cyrillic Г and Gothic 𐌷 (hagl).

Usage

is the fifth letter of the Yakut alphabet, placed between and . It was formerly also the seventh letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, placed between the digraphs and ; it was replaced by the letter .

Ge with middle hook was also used in the Chuvash language, in Ivan Yakovlev's initial 47-letter alphabet.

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