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Insular G () is a form of the letter G resembling a Tailed Z , used in the British Isles . It was first used by the Irish , passed into Old English , and developed into the Middle English letter Yogh ; Middle English, having reborrowed the familiar Carolingian G from the Continent, thus used two forms of g as separate letters. The lowercase insular g was used in Irish Linguistics as a phonetic character for the Voiced Velar Fricative , IPA //, and on this basis is encoded in the Phonetic Extensions block of Unicode as of March 2005 as U+1D79: . The insular form of g is still used in traditional Gaelic Script . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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