Oe or barred O (Ө ө;
italics
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:
''Ө ө'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, ...
.
Shape
Its form was copied from the
Latin letter barred O (Ɵ ɵ) used in
Jaŋalif and other alphabets. Despite having a similar shape, it is related neither to the
Greek letter theta (Θ θ/) nor to the archaic
Cyrillic letter fita (Ѳ ѳ). However, traditional forms of Cyrillic fita (since the 18th century) and oe are identical, and designers of Unicode's sample font were probably the first ones who split glyphs of the two letters (providing Oe with a horizontal bar and Fita with a
tilde
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-shaped bar inside). In traditional typography, the shape of the inner line depends on typeface, not on meaning of the letter: the bar in both oe and fita may either be straight or wavy.
Usage
Oe is used in the alphabets of the
Bashkir,
Buryat,
Kalmyk,
Kazakh,
Khanty
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,
Kyrgyz Kyrgyz, Kirghiz or Kyrgyzstani may refer to:
* Someone or something related to Kyrgyzstan
*Kyrgyz people
*Kyrgyz national games
*Kyrgyz language
*Kyrgyz culture
*Kyrgyz cuisine
*Yenisei Kirghiz
*The Fuyü Gïrgïs language in Northeastern China
...
,
Tatar
The Tatars ()[Tatar]
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different ,
Tuvan,
Mongolian, and
Yakut languages. It commonly represents the front rounded vowels and , except in
Mongolian where it represents or . In
Kazakh, this letter may also express . Recently, the letter has also been adopted in the spelling of the
Komi-Yazva language
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, where it represents a close-mid centralized back unrounded or weakly rounded vowel . The
International Phonetic Alphabet
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uses the identically shaped Latin counterpart,
ɵ, to represent the
close-mid central rounded vowel
The close-mid central rounded vowel, or high-mid central rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a lowercase Ɵ, barred letter o.
The character ɵ has been use ...
, and sometimes also the
mid central rounded vowel
The mid central vowel (also known as schwa) is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a rotated lowercase letter e.
While the ''Handbook of the ...
.
Oe is most commonly
romanized
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as ; but its
ISO 9
ISO 9 is an international standard establishing a system for the transliteration into Latin characters of Cyrillic characters constituting the alphabets of many Slavic and non-Slavic languages.
Published on February 23, 1995 by the International ...
transliteration is . In 2018, there were proposals to use as a romanization of Oe in Kazakh, but a year later it was certified as .
In
Tuvan,
Kyrgyz Kyrgyz, Kirghiz or Kyrgyzstani may refer to:
* Someone or something related to Kyrgyzstan
*Kyrgyz people
*Kyrgyz national games
*Kyrgyz language
*Kyrgyz culture
*Kyrgyz cuisine
*Yenisei Kirghiz
*The Fuyü Gïrgïs language in Northeastern China
...
and
Mongolian the Cyrillic letter can be written as a
double vowel
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Double, The Double or Dubble may also refer to:
Film and television
* Double (filmmaking), someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character
* ...
.
Computing codes
See also
*Ö ö :
O with diaeresis - an Azerbaijani, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Swedish, Turkish and Turkmen letter.
*Ơ ơ :
Latin letter O with horn, used in
Vietnamese language
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*Ø ø :
Latin letter O with stroke
*Õ õ :
Latin letter O with tilde, used in
Estonian language
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*Œ œ :
Ligature Oe
*О о :
Cyrillic letter O
*Ӧ ӧ :
Cyrillic letter O with diaeresis
*Ӫ ӫ :
Cyrillic letter oe with diaeresis
References
Vowel letters
Tatar language
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