G - Other Scripts

Other Scripts

Strictly speaking, the letter ⟨g⟩ is not present in other scripts, but the sound it represents is present in many world languages, and is represented by many different graphemes.

The Cyrillic script analogue is marked as ⟨г⟩ (e.g. in Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, etc.) or ⟨ґ⟩ (in Ukrainian as additional letter with a slightly different pronunciation). The Hebrew analogue is gimel ⟨ג⟩. Devanagari has forms for both aspirated and un-aspirated 'g' sounds. (घ,ग)

Classical Arabic did not have plain /ɡ/ in its native words (the palatalized form /ɡʲ/ or /ɟ/ is believed to have been used), but the sound is standard in Modern Standard Arabic in Egypt, so as is the standard sound in Egyptian Arabic, in which loanwords are normally transcribed with ⟨ج⟩ (Gīm). However, foreign words containing /ɡ/ may be transcribed using other letters, such as: گ (Gāf, not part of standard letters), ق (qāf), ك (kāf), غ (Ghain) in loanwords or in varieties of Arabic, but not in Egypt, because ⟨ج⟩ is normally pronounced in all cases.

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