Ĝ or ĝ (G circumflex) is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiced postalveolar affricate (either palato-alveolar or retroflex), and is equivalent to a voiced postalveolar affricate or a voiced retroflex affricate .
Key facts
- Grapheme.letter
- Ĝ ĝ
- Grapheme.name
- G with circumflex
- Grapheme.image
- File:Latin letter G with cicrcumflex.svg
- Grapheme.imageclass
- skin-invert-image
- Grapheme.fam1
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Pictogram of a Camel (speculated origin)
- Grapheme.fam2
- T14
- Grapheme.fam4
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Gimel
- Grapheme.fam3
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Gimel
- Grapheme.fam5
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Early Greek Gamma
- Grapheme.fam6
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Early Etruscan C
- Grapheme.fam7
- Γ γ
- Grapheme.fam8
- 𐌂
- Grapheme.fam9
- C c
- Grapheme.fam10
- G g
- Grapheme.language
- Esperanto, Aleut language, Khinalug language, Toba Qom language, Haida language
- Grapheme.script
- Latin
- Grapheme.direction
- Left to right
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+011C, U+011D
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
4 sectionsContents
- Uses of ''Ĝ'' in other languages
- Character mappings
- See also
- References
Ĝ or ĝ (G circumflex) is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiced postalveolar affricate (either palato-alveolar or retroflex), and is equivalent to a voiced postalveolar affricate or a voiced retroflex affricate .
While Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for its four postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavic alphabets, the base letters are Romano-Germanic. Ĝ is based on the letter g, which has this sound in English and Italian before the vowels i and e (with some exceptions in English), to better preserve the shape of borrowings from those languages (such as ĝenerala from general) than Slavic đ (Serbo-Croatian) or dž would.