Ge with hook

Ge with hook is an allograph of the letter ge with descender $\langleӶ ӷ\rangle$ of the Cyrillic script. It has been used in writing Ket and sometimes Nivkh, and in the transcription of Eskaleut languages.

Use
Ge with hook is used in the literature of Nivkh to represent the voiced uvular plosive [ɢ], and is sometimes represented instead with the ge with descender $\langleӶ ӷ\rangle$. It is used, in particular, in the Sakhalin dialects and not in the Amur dialect of the Russian Far East.

Forms and variants
Ge with hook has the hook attached to the right in Nivkh in Taksami 1996, as well as Eskaleut languages works such as Ainana 1994, and Vakhtin 2003, in the Chaplino dialect in Menovchtchikov 1988, Menovchtchikov and Vakhtin 1990, Sigunylik 2003, in Naukan Yupik in Menovchtchikov 1975.

Computing codes
This letter has not yet been encoded in Unicode. In theory, it is possible to use the letter ge with descender $\langleӶ, ӷ\rangle$ with fonts or adapted applications in which these have the form of this letter.

Notes and references
