Also known as Yogh
The letter yogh (uppercase: Ȝ, lowercase: ȝ; Scots: ; Middle English: ) is a Latin script letter that was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing y () and various velar phonemes. It descends from the Insular G, the form of the letter g in the medieval Insular script, ᵹ.
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- Ȝ
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- Ȝ ȝ
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- Writing cursive forms of Ȝ
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- Alphabet
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- T14
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- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Gimel
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- Grapheme.fam4
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Early Greek Gamma
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- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Early Etruscan C
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- Γ γ
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- 𐌂
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- ȝ
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16 sectionsContents
- Pronunciation
- History
- Old English
- Middle English
- Scots
- After the development of printing
- Examples of Middle English words containing a yogh
- Scots words with {{angle bracket|z}} for {{angbr|ȝ}}
- Placenames
- Placenames standardised without {{angbr|ȝ}}
- Surnames
- Miscellaneous nouns
- In Egyptology
- See also
- References
- External links
The letter yogh (uppercase: Ȝ, lowercase: ȝ; Scots: ; Middle English: ) is a Latin script letter that was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing y () and various velar phonemes. It descends from the Insular G, the form of the letter g in the medieval Insular script, ᵹ.
In Middle English writing, tailed z came to be indistinguishable from yogh.
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