Reversed ge

Reversed ge
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Abkhaz, Abaza, Kabardian, Udi
Sound values	[ʒ], [ʑ], [t͡sʼ]
History
Development
Time period	1920s to 1930s
Other

Reversed ge (, ) is an additional letter of the Latin script which was used in the writing of the Abkhaz language from 1928 to 1938, in the Abaza language, in the Kabardian language, in the Shiddin language and in the Udi language.

Use

Reversed ge was used in the Abkhaz Latin alphabet of Yakovlev in 1930.

• 
  Abkhaz Latin alphabet of 1930.
• 
  Abaza Latin alphabet of 1932.
• 
  Udi Latin alphabet of 1934.

Computing codes

Although this letter has not yet been encoded in Unicode, Ꞁ or ⅂ can be used respectively for the capital form, as is proposed in the Unicode encoding proposal:

Character information

Preview	Ꞁ		⅂
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED L		TURNED SANS-SERIF CAPITAL L
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	42880	U+A780	8514	U+2142
UTF-8	234 158 128	EA 9E 80	226 133 130	E2 85 82
Numeric character reference	Ꞁ	Ꞁ	⅂	⅂

See also

• Ğ (G with breve)
• Abkhaz language
• Latin script

Bibliography

• Joomagueldinov, Nurlan; Pentzlin, Karl; Yevlampiev, Ilya (18 October 2011). Proposal to encode Latin letters used in the Former Soviet Union (PDF).
• Joomagueldinov, Nurlan; Pentzlin, Karl; Yevlampiev, Ilya (29 January 2012). Revised proposal to encode Latin letters used in the Former Soviet Union (PDF).