Ġ

Ġ (minuscule: ġ) is a letter of the Latin script, formed from G with the addition of a dot above the letter.

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

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

Chechen
Ġ is present in the Chechen Latin alphabet, created in the 1990s. The Cyrillic equivalent is гI, which represents the sound.

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

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

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

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

Old English
$⟨Ġ⟩$ is sometimes used in modern scholarly transcripts of Old English to represent or  (after $⟨n⟩$), to distinguish it from $⟨g⟩$ pronounced as, which is otherwise spelled identically. The digraph $\langlecg\rangle$ was also used to represent.

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

Phonetic transcription
$⟨ġ⟩$ is sometimes used as a phonetic symbol transcribing or.

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

Computer encoding
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.