INSULAR G

'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.

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★ Irish orthography

★ Insular script

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★ Drawing an insular G (here mistaken for yogh)

★ On the derivation of YOGH and EZH shows insular g in several typefaces.