An alternative rare letter of the BelarusianCyrillic alphabet. Its name isґе (ge/ɡɛ/) and it has the sound of /g/ - voiced velar plosive. If included, it is preceded byГ and followed byД. In modern Belarusian this letter is rarely included.
Пра́вила орѳографіи… // …Четвєртоє… ни Г, вⸯмѣстоҐ, ни вⸯпротивⸯ: яко, одиґітрїа, а не одигітрїѧ. гора а не ґора и проч. ―Právila orfohrafij… // …Četvjertoje… ni H, vměstoG, 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.
The letterґ(g) conveys the sound/ɡ/, which was also transmitted by the Cyrillicdigraphкг(g) or less often by the lettersg orɣ. First used in thePeresopnytsia Gospels (1556-1561), properly introduced into the Slavic alphabet in 1619 byMeletius Smotrytsky in his “Slavonic Grammar”.
Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (2000), “ґ”, inСловник 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, page125
Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (2000), “ґ”, inСловник 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, page125
Rusanivskyi, V. M., editor (2012), “ґ”, inСловник 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”, inСловник 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, page271