Latin omega, or simply omega, is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet, based on the lowercase of the Greek letter

omega Omega (; capital letter, capital: Ω, lower case, lowercase: ω; Ancient Greek ὦ, later ὦ μέγα, Modern Greek ωμέγα) is the twenty-fourth and final letter in the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numerals, Greek numeric system/isopsephy ...

. It was included as a Latin letter in the Mann and Dalby 1982 revision of the

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and has been used as such in some publications in Kulango languages in

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in the 1990s. In other Kulango publications the letters V with hook or Latin upsilon are found instead. The Italian humanist Giovan Giωrgio Trissino proposed in 1524 a reform of Italian orthography that included lowercase and uppercase omega for the open sound (). He later re-assigned it to the closed ().

Encoding

Latin omega was released in Unicode 8.0. The letter is in the Latin Extended-D block encoded at and .

Bibliography

* Pascal Boyeldieu, Stefan Elders, Gudrun Miehe. 2008. ''Grammaire koulango (parler de Bouna, Côte d’Ivoire)''. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. * Diocèse de Bondoukou Nassian. 1992. ''Syllabaire koulango : réservé aux élèves des cours bibliques en Koulango (Inspiré par les syllabaires de la Société Internationale de Linguistique, collection: « Je lis ma langue », Nouvelles Éditions Africaines / EDICEF)''. Nassian: Diocèse de Bondoukou. * Mann, Michael and David Dalby. 1987. ''A thesaurus of African languages: A classified and annotated inventory of the spoken languages of Africa with an appendix on their written representation''. London: Hans Zell Publishers. * Michael Everson, Denis Jacquerye, Chris Lilley
''Proposal for the addition of ten Latin characters to the UCS''
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, Document N4297, 2012-07-26. * Henry Frieland Buckner. ''A Grammar of Maskωke, or Creek Language'', Marion, Alabama, 1860. Latin-script letters {{Latin script, O , show pairs = no

Encoding

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