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Prior to 1921, the IPA letter was styled with an open tail bent to the right. Ǥ was replaced by ɣ in 1932.

ǥ

  1. (IPA, obsolete, open-tail variant   and later  ) a voiced velar fricative; superseded by ɣ
  2. (NAPA, bowl-struck variant   or  ) A voiced velar fricative (IPA [ɣ])

(upper case )

  1. (Bowl-struck variant) An unaspirated 'k' sound; alphabetized before g.

ǥ (upper case Ǥ)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Letter g with stroke to signify spirantization.

  • Sound

Pronunciation of ǥ

(Standard Slovene, tonal) IPA(key): [ɡ̞], SNPT: [ǥ]
(Standard Slovene, non-tonal) IPA(key): [ɡ̞], SNPT: [ǥ]

Note:different distinctions and accent shifts do not necessarily exclude other and most of them exist in both tonal and non-tonal Slovene.

ǥ

  1. (dialectal transcription) Phonetic transcription of sound [ɡ̞].

Although by the description, the corresponding IPA representation should be approximately [ɡ̞], no equivalent IPA representation is given in the source.

  • Kenda-Jež, Karmen (2017 February 27) Fonetična trankripcija [Phonetic transcription]‎[1] (in Slovene), Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša, archived from the original on January 22, 2022, pages 27–30