Coptic Small Letter Gamma

ⲅ is a Coptic letter used inside words. It is transliterated as g, mostly in Greek vocabulary, and follows Greek γ.

Coptic writing took shape as Greek letters were adapted to write Egyptian after Alexander conquered Egypt, toward the end of the fourth century BCE. Signs from Demotic, an older Egyptian script, filled sounds Greek lacked. Christian sacred texts used Coptic by the 1st century AD. Sahidic served literature and administration; Bohairic became liturgical. Since Unicode 4.1, ⲅ and γ are separate characters.