The letter yogh (uppercase: Ȝ, lowercase: ȝ; Scots: ; Middle English: ) is a Latin script letter that was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing y () and various velar phonemes. It descends from the Insular G, the form of the letter g in the medieval Insular script, ᵹ.
Key facts
- Grapheme.name
- Ȝ
- Grapheme.letter
- Ȝ ȝ
- Grapheme.image
- Latin letter Yogh.svg
- Grapheme.imageclass
- skin-invert-image
- Grapheme.imagesize
- 200px
- Grapheme.imagealt
- Writing cursive forms of Ȝ
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
- Grapheme.language
- Middle English languageLatin language
- Grapheme.phonemes
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- Grapheme.fam1
- T14
- Grapheme.fam2
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Gimel
- Grapheme.fam3
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Gimel
- Grapheme.fam4
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Early Greek Gamma
- Grapheme.fam5
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Early Etruscan C
- Grapheme.fam6
- Γ γ
- Grapheme.fam7
- 𐌂
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16 sectionsContents
- Pronunciation
- History
- Old English
- Middle English
- Scots
- After the development of printing
- Examples of Middle English words containing a yogh
- Scots words with {{angle bracket|z}} for {{angbr|ȝ}}
- Placenames
- Placenames standardised without {{angbr|ȝ}}
- Surnames
- Miscellaneous nouns
- In Egyptology
- See also
- References
- External links
The letter yogh (uppercase: Ȝ, lowercase: ȝ; Scots: ; Middle English: ) is a Latin script letter that was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing y () and various velar phonemes. It descends from the Insular G, the form of the letter g in the medieval Insular script, ᵹ.
In Middle English writing, tailed z came to be indistinguishable from yogh.