The Carolingian G or French G is one of two historical variants of the letter G which were in use in the Middle English alphabet, the other variant was the insular G. G is the seventh letter in the Roman alphabet. ... Middle English is the name given by historical philologists to the diverse forms of the English language spoken in England from around the 12th to the 15th centuries— from after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror in 1066 to the mid to late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard... An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. ... Insular G is an s-shaped form of the letter g used in the British Isles. ...

The Carolingian G stands at the basis of the modern letter G, and eventually replaced the insular G as standard form for the letter. The insular G survived for a while as the letter yogh before being dropped from the English alphabet. Yogh is a letter used in Middle English and Middle Scots, representing y (IPA: ) and various velar phonemes. ... The English language has been written using the Latin alphabet from ca. ...

The Carolingian G is the standard letter form for G in all modern alphabets derived from the Latin. Variants of the Latin alphabet are used by the writing systems of many languages throughout the world. ...