Ġ

Ġ is used in some Arabic transliteration schemes, such as DIN 31635 and ISO 233, to represent the letter غ (ġain).

Ġ is used in the romanization of Classical or Eastern Armenian to represent the letter Ղ/ղ (ġat).

Ġ is present in the Chechen Latin alphabet, created in the 1990s. The Cyrillic equivalent is гI, which represents the sound /ɣ/.^[1]

Ġ is used in some dialects of Inupiat to represent the voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/.

Ġ was formerly used in Irish to represent the lenited form of G. The digraph gh is now used.^[2]

Ġ is the 7th letter of the Maltese alphabet, preceded by F and followed by G. It represents the voiced postalveolar affricate [dʒ].^[3]

⟨ġ⟩ is sometimes (about 16th century) used to represent real [g], to distinguish it from the letter g which represented the consonant [j].

⟨Ġ⟩ is sometimes used in modern scholarly transcripts of Old English to represent [j]or[dʒ] (after ⟨n⟩), to distinguish it from ⟨g⟩ pronounced as /ɣ/, which is otherwise spelled identically. The digraph ⟨cg⟩ was also used to represent [dʒ].^[4]

⟨Ġ⟩ is used in some Ukrainian transliteration schemes, mainly ISO 9:1995, as the letter Ґ.

⟨ġ⟩ is sometimes used as a phonetic symbol transcribing [ɣ]or[ŋ].

Ġ is used in the transliteration of Georgian to represent the letter ღ.

ISO 8859-3 (Latin-3) includes Ġ at D5 and ġ at F5 for use in Maltese, and ISO 8859-14 (Latin-8) includes Ġ at B2 and ġ at B3 for use in Irish.

Precomposed characters for Ġ and ġ have been present in Unicode since version 1.0. As part of WGL4, it can be expected to display correctly on most computer systems.

OpenAI's GPT-2 uses 0xC4 0xA0 (Ġ) as the start of a word in its tokens.^[5]