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An alternative rare letter of the Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet. Its name is ґе (ge/ɡɛ/) and it has the sound of /g/ - voiced velar plosive. If included, it is preceded by Г and followed by Д. In modern Belarusian this letter is rarely included.
Usage notes
The sound /ɡ/ is very uncommon in Belarusian, even in loanwords. It is common to pronounce /ɣ/ (or /x/ in devoiced positions) regardless of etymology.
Пра́вила орѳографіи… // …Четвєртоє… ни Г, вⸯмѣсто Ґ, ни вⸯпротивⸯ: яко, одиґітрїа, а не одигітрїѧ. гора а не ґора и проч. ― Právila orfohrafij… // …Četvjertoje… ni H, vměsto G, ni vprotiv: jako, odigitria, a ne odihitrija. hora a ne gora i proč. ― Orthographic rules… // …Fourth… not “Г” instead of “Ґ”, not vice versa: like “одиґітрїа”, not “одигітрїа”; “гора”, not “ґора” etc.
Usage notes
The letter ґ(g) conveys the sound /ɡ/, which was also transmitted by the Cyrillic digraphкг(g) or less often by the letters g or ɣ. First used in the Peresopnytsia Gospels (1556-1561), properly introduced into the Slavic alphabet in 1619 by Meletius Smotrytsky in his “Slavonic Grammar”.
Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (2000), “ґ”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 7 (головнѣйший – десѧтина), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 125
Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (2000), “ґ”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 7 (головнѣйший – десѧтина), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 125
Rusanivskyi, V. M., editor (2012), “ґ”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 3 (відстава́ння – ґура́льня), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1977), “кг”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 271