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Also known as O with ogonek
O with an ogonek (majuscule: Ǫ, minuscule: ǫ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by the addition of the ogonek (from Polish: little tail) to the letter O. It is used in Western Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua, Muscogee, Dadibi, Gwichʼin, Erie, and Navajo. It is also used in the Latin transcription of Old Church Slavonic, and the Proto-Slavic language, as well as in the Slavistic Phonetic Alphabet. It is also still in use for the writing of Old Norse, and used to be used sporadically in Polish.
Key facts
- Grapheme.name
- O with ogonek
- Grapheme.letter
- Ǫ ǫ
- Grapheme.image
- Latin letter O with ogonek.svg
- Grapheme.imageclass
- skin-invert-image
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+01EA, U+01EB
- Grapheme.fam1
- D4
- Grapheme.fam2
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-sinaitic ʿayin
- Grapheme.fam3
- class=skin-invert-image|20px
- Grapheme.fam4
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Phoenician Ayin
- Grapheme.fam5
- Ο ο
- Grapheme.fam6
- 𐌏
Article
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- Usage
- Encoding
- References
O with an ogonek (majuscule: Ǫ, minuscule: ǫ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by the addition of the ogonek (from Polish: little tail) to the letter O. It is used in Western Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua, Muscogee, Dadibi, Gwichʼin, Erie, and Navajo. It is also used in the Latin transcription of Old Church Slavonic, and the Proto-Slavic language, as well as in the Slavistic Phonetic Alphabet. It is also still in use for the writing of Old Norse, and used to be used sporadically in Polish.
== Usage == The letter is used in the autochthonous languages of North America: Western Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua, Muscogee, Dadibi, Gwichʼin, Erie, and Navajo. In such languages, it represents either a nasalized close-mid back rounded vowel ([õ]), or a nasalized ([ɔ̃]).