Ga (Indic)

Ga
Ga
Example glyphs
Bengali–AssameseGa
TibetanGa
Thai
Malayalam
Sinhala
Ashoka BrahmiGa
DevanagariGa
Cognates
Hebrewג
GreekΓ
LatinC, G, Ɣ
CyrillicГ, Ґ
Properties
Phonemic representation/g/ /k/B /kʰ/C
IAST transliterationga Ga
ISCII code pointB5 (181)

^B In Khmer, Tai Viet, Tai Lü, Northern Thai and Tai Khün
^C In Thai and Lao

Ga is the third consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, ga is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter ga, which is probably derived from the Aramaic letter (gimel, /g/) after having gone through the Gupta letter .