ɔ
Open o or Turned c (majuscule: Ɔ, Lower case, minuscule: ɔ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it represents the open-mid back rounded vowel. It is used in the orthographies of many African languages using the African reference alphabet. The Yucatec Maya language used Ɔ as a consonant in the orthography of the Colonial period. Now ''dz'' or ''tz''' is preferred. Unicode On the macOS US Extended keyboard, ''ɔ'' and ''Ɔ'' can be typed with followed by or . On a personal computer, ''ɔ'' can be typed by holding the ALT key and typing ''596'' on the number keypad. The capital ''Ɔ'' can be typed similarly by using ALT+390. Related characters Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet *Ɔ with diacritics: ɔ́ ɔ̀ ɔ̃ ᶗ *Uralic Phonetic Alphabet-specific symbols related to Ɔ : ** ** ** Similar looking letters file:Claudian letters.svg, The first of these Claudian letters is the ''antisigma''. Open ...
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Majuscule
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing systems that distinguish between the upper and lowercase have two parallel sets of letters, with each letter in one set usually having an equivalent in the other set. The two case variants are alternative representations of the same letter: they have the same name and pronunciation and are treated identically when sorting in alphabetical order. Letter case is generally applied in a mixed-case fashion, with both upper and lowercase letters appearing in a given piece of text for legibility. The choice of case is often prescribed by the grammar of a language or by the conventions of a particular discipline. In orthography, the uppercase is primarily reserved for special purposes, such as the first letter of a sentence or of a proper noun (ca ...
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