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	'''Insular G''' (]) is a form of the letter ] resembling a ], ~~developed~~ in ] ~~in the 7th century~~. It was first used by the Irish, ~~and~~ passed into ], and developed into the ] letter ]; Middle English, having reborrowed the familiar ] from the Continent, thus used two forms of g as separate letters.		'''Insular G''' (]) is a form of the letter ] resembling a ], used in the ]. It was first used by the ], passed into ], and developed into the ] letter ]; Middle English, having reborrowed the familiar ] from the Continent, thus used two forms of g as separate letters.

	The lowercase insular g was used in Irish ] as a phonetic character for the ], IPA /{{IPA\|ɣ}}/, and on this basis is encoded in the Phonetic Extensions block of ] as of ] as U+1D79: {{unicode\|ᵹ}}.		The lowercase insular g was used in Irish ] as a phonetic character for the ], IPA /{{IPA\|ɣ}}/, and on this basis is encoded in the Phonetic Extensions block of ] as of ] as U+1D79: {{unicode\|ᵹ}}.

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Insular G () is a form of the letter g resembling a tailed z, used in the British Isles. It was first used by the Irish, passed into Old English, and developed into the Middle English letter yogh; Middle English, having reborrowed the familiar Carolingian g from the Continent, thus used two forms of g as separate letters.

The lowercase insular g was used in Irish linguistics as a phonetic character for the voiced velar fricative, IPA /ɣ/, and on this basis is encoded in the Phonetic Extensions block of Unicode as of March 2005 as U+1D79: ᵹ.

The insular form of g is still used in traditional Gaelic script.