Ghat (Armenian letter)

Ghat
Ղ ղ
Upper and lower case of letter Ghad
Usage
Writing systemArmenian script
TypeAlphabetic
Language of originArmenian language
Sound valuesʁ, ɫ
In UnicodeU+0542, U+0572
Alphabetical position18
History
Development
Time period405 to present
Other
Associated numbers90

Ghat, Ghad, or Ġat (majuscule: Ղ; minuscule: ղ; Armenian: ղադ) is the eighteenth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It represents the voiced uvular fricative (/ʁ/) in both Eastern and Western varieties of Armenian. In Classical Armenian, it is pronounced as the velarized alveolar lateral approximant (/ɫ/). Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a numerical value of 90.[1]

Various historic fonts

Computing codes

Character information
Preview Ղ ղ
Unicode name ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER GHAD ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER GHAD
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 1346 U+0542 1394 U+0572
UTF-8 213 130 D5 82 213 178 D5 B2
Numeric character reference Ղ Ղ ղ ղ

See also

References

  1. ^ "ղ տառը բացատրություն, gh tary bacatrutyun, ղ տառը հոմանիշ, ղ տառը ռուսերեն թարգմանություն, ղ տառը հականիշ, ղ տառը անգլերեն թարգմանություն, ղ տառը դարձվածքներ". bararanonline.com.
  • Ղ on Wiktionary
  • ղ on Wiktionary
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.