Oni (letter)
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Oni (asomtavruli , nuskhuri , mkhedruli ო) is the 16th letter of the three
Georgian scripts The Georgian scripts are the three writing systems used to write the Georgian language: Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli. Although the systems differ in appearance, their letters share the same names and alphabetical order and are written ho ...
.Machavariani, p. 136 The letter Oni can also be spelled like the Latin letter L, however this version of writing Oni has fallen out of favour. In the system of
Georgian numerals The Georgian numerals are the system of number names used in Georgian, a language spoken in the country of Georgia. The Georgian numerals from 30 to 99 are constructed using a base-20 system, similar to the scheme used in Basque, French for nu ...
it has a value of 70.Mchedlidze, (2) p. 58 Oni commonly represents the
close-mid back rounded vowel The close-mid back rounded vowel, or high-mid back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . Close-mid back protruded vowel The close ...
, like the pronunciation of in "law".


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* Latin letter O *
omega Omega (; capital: Ω, 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 numeric system/isopsephy (gematria), it has a value of 800. The wo ...
(ω)


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*Mchedlidze, T. (1) The restored Georgian alphabet, Fulda, Germany, 2013 *Mchedlidze, T. (2) The Georgian script; Dictionary and guide, Fulda, Germany, 2013 *Machavariani, E. Georgian manuscripts, Tbilisi, 2011 *The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (1
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1991-2013 *The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (2
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