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A Latin adaptation of the Ancient Greek and Modern Greek letter γ(“gamma”). In Greek, γ in most contexts represents a voiced velar fricative, and has done so since Koine Greek, which is why it was chosen as the IPA letter to represent that sound (in Ancient times, in Attic Greek, γ represented , like the Englishg).
Doke's obsolete letter for a voiced lateral clickThe IPA was using this letter for the velar fricative when Doke came up with Latin gamma for a click.The 'baby gamma' variant of the vowel letter ⟨ɤ⟩
(doubled ligature) letter in Doke (1925) for a voiced lateral click.
Usage notes
Sometimes confused with ⟨ɤ⟩, the unrounded back vowel letter (ram's horns), especially in its "baby gamma" form, but the vowel letter does not drop below the baseline, which the consonant ⟨ɣ⟩ does.
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