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Ġ is used in some Arabic transliteration schemes, such as DIN 31635 and ISO 233, to represent the letter {{lang|ar|غ}} (ġayn).In the Standard Tunisian Alphabet The Standard Tunisian Alphabet or Tunisian Alphabet (in Tunisian: l'Alphabet t'Tounsiy) is a phonemic Latin-based Alphabet used to write down Tunisian. It uses the 26 main letters alongside other additional latin letters. It isn't yet official to use and not famous amongst Tunisians, but is still a good way to use it writing Tunisian if considering Latin as the Alphabet. Ġ is used in Tunisian Arabic to represent the voiced pharyngeal fricative {{IPA|/ʕ/}}. Whereas it uses Ğ to represent the voiced uvular fricative {{IPA|/ʁ/}}.

Ġ is used in the romanization of Classical or Eastern Armenian to represent the letter {{lang|hy|Ղ/ղ}} (ġat).

Ġ is present in the Chechen Latin alphabet, created in the 1990s. The Cyrillic equivalent is гI, which represents the sound {{IPA|/ɣ/}}.{{cite book |last1=Koryakov |first1=Yuri B. |title=Atlas of Caucasian Languages |date=2002 |publisher=Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences |location=Moscow |pages=6–7 |url=http://lingvarium.org/raznoe/publications/caucas/ACL-all.pdf}}

Ġ is used in some dialects of Inupiat to represent the voiced uvular fricative {{IPA|/ʁ/}}.

Ġ was formerly used in Irish to represent the lenited form of G. The digraph gh is now used.{{cite web |title=Symbol Codes | Irish, Old Irish and Manx |url=https://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/languages/europe/irish/ |website=Pennsylvania State University |date=21 April 2017 |access-date=10 January 2023}}

Ġ is the 7th letter of the Maltese alphabet, preceded by F and followed by G. It represents the voiced postalveolar affricate {{IPA|[dʒ]}}.{{cite journal |author1=Robert D. Hoberman |editor1-last=Kaye |editor1-first=Alan S. |title=Chapter 13. Maltese Morphology |journal=Morphologies of Asia and Africa |date=2007 |publisher=Eisenbrauns |location=Winona Lake, Ind. |isbn=978-1-57506-109-2 |page=258 |url=https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/linguistics/faculty/robert.hoberman/files/publications/Hoberman%202007%20Maltese%20morphology.pdf |access-date=10 January 2023 }}

{{angbr|ġ}} is sometimes (about 16th century) used to represent real [g], to distinguish it from the letter ⟨g⟩, which represented the consonant [j].

{{angbr|Ġ}} is sometimes used in modern scholarly transcripts of Old English to represent {{IPA|[j]}} or {{IPA|[dʒ]}} (after {{angbr|n}}), to distinguish it from {{angbr|g}} pronounced as {{IPA|/ɣ/}}, which is otherwise spelled identically. The digraph {{angle bracket|cg}} was also used to represent {{IPA|[dʒ]}}.{{cite web |author1=Daniel Paul O'Donnell |title=The Pronunciation of Old English |url=https://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/tutorials/the-pronunciation-of-old-english |website=University of Lethbridge Personal Web Sites |access-date=26 October 2022}}

{{angbr|Ġ}} is used in some Ukrainian transliteration schemes, mainly ISO 9:1995, as the letter Ґ.

{{angbr|ġ}} is sometimes used as a phonetic symbol transcribing {{IPAblink|ɣ}} or {{IPAblink|ŋ}}.

Ġ is used in the transliteration of Georgian to represent the letter ღ.

ISO 8859-3 (Latin-3) includes Ġ at D5 and ġ at F5 for use in Maltese, and ISO 8859-14 (Latin-8) includes Ġ at B2 and ġ at B3 for use in Irish.

Precomposed characters for Ġ and ġ have been present in Unicode since version 1.0. As part of WGL4, it can be expected to display correctly on most computer systems.

OpenAI's GPT-2 uses U+0120 (Ġ) as a substitute for the space character in its tokens.{{cite web | url=https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/issues/80 | title=Why \u0120 (Ġ) is in so many pairs? · Issue #80 · openai/GPT-2 | website=GitHub }}

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