Ḡ(minuscule: á¸Â) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from D with the addition of a dot diacritic.
In the transcription of Afro-Asiatic languages such as Arabic, â¨á¸Ââ© represents an "emphatic" consonant , and is used for that purpose in the Berber Latin alphabet.
In the transcription of Indic and East Iranian languages, and in the orthography of the O'odham and Sicilian languages, â¨á¸Ââ© represents a retroflex . This was used in a former transcription of Javanese, but has been replaced by â¨dhâ©.
In modern discussion of Early Old French (9th-11th centuries), it represents a voiced dental fricative, , a sound that disappeared by the time of late 12th-century Old French as reflected in new spellings. Examples: "to laugh" (later ), "loved" (feminine singular past participle, later ).