Ó, ó ( o- acute) is a letter in the

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, Emilian-Romagnol, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Polish, Slovak, Karakalpak, and

Sorbian languages The Sorbian languages (, ) are the Upper Sorbian language and Lower Sorbian language, two closely related and partially mutually intelligible languages spoken by the Sorbs, a West Slavs, West Slavic ethno-cultural minority in the Lusatia region ...

. The symbol also appears in the

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, Catalan, Dutch, Irish,

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Occitan Occitan may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the Occitania territory in parts of France, Italy, Monaco and Spain. * Something of, from, or related to the Occitania administrative region of France. * Occitan language, spoken in parts o ...

, Portuguese, Spanish,

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and Galician languages as a variant of the letter "o". It usually represents a vowel sound longer than or slightly different from that represented by plain "o", although in some cases its sound is notably different (as in modern Polish, where it is pronounced the same as "u"). In some cases it represents the vowel "o" with a particular

tone Tone may refer to: Visual arts and color-related * Tone (color theory), a mix of tint and shade, in painting and color theory * Tone (color), the lightness or brightness (as well as darkness) of a color * Toning (coin), color change in coins * ...

(for example, a high rising tone in Vietnamese). It is sometimes also used in English for

loanwords A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing. Borrowing is a metaphorical term t ...

Usage in various languages

Chinese

In Chinese

pinyin Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means 'Han Chinese, Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin' ...

ó is the ''yángpíng'' tone (阳平, high-rising tone) of "o".

Czech and Slovak

Ó is the 24th letter of the

Czech alphabet Czech orthography is a system of rules for proper formal writing (orthography) in Czech language, Czech. The earliest form of separate Latin script specifically designed to suit Czech was devised by Czech theologian and church reformist Jan Hus, ...

and the 28th letter of the

Slovak alphabet The first Slovak orthography was proposed and created by the Slovak Catholic priest Anton Bernolák (1762–1813) in his ''Dissertatio philologico-critica de litteris Slavorum'', used in the six-volume ''Slovak-Czech-Latin-German-Hungarian Dicti ...

. It represents .

Dobrujan Tatar

Ó is the 21st letter of Dobrujan Tatar alphabet, represents the mid rounded half-advanced ATR or soft vowel /ɵ/ as in "tór" ̶ɵr̶'background'

Dutch

In Dutch, the acute Ó accent is used to mark different meanings for words, for example and ("for" / "before"), or and ("to occur" / "to prevent").

Emilian

In Emilian, ó is used to represent e.g. ''sótt'' otː"dry".

Faroese

Ó is the 18th letter of the

Faroese alphabet Faroese orthography is the method employed to write the Faroese language, using a 29-letter Latin alphabet, although it does not include the letters C, Q, W, X and Z. Alphabet The Faroese alphabet consists of 29 letters derived from the Latin s ...

and represents or .

Hungarian

Ó is the 25th letter of the

Hungarian alphabet The Hungarian alphabet (, ) is an extension of the Latin alphabet used for writing the Hungarian language. The alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet, with several added variations of letters, consisting 44 letters. Over the 26 letters of the ...

. It represents the

long vowel In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived or actual duration of a vowel sound when pronounced. Vowels perceived as shorter are often called short vowels and those perceived as longer called long vowels. On one hand, many languages do not d ...

Icelandic

Ó is the 19th letter of the Icelandic alphabet and represents .

Irish

Ó is widely used in Irish where it has various meanings: * the

preposition Adpositions are a part of speech, class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations (''in, under, towards, behind, ago'', etc.) or mark various thematic relations, semantic roles (''of, for''). The most common adpositions are prepositi ...

''ó'' "from" * the patronymic term ''Ó'' "grandson, (usually male) descendant, first or second cousin" (variants: Ua, Uí, Í Uaí). When

Irish name A formal Irish name consists of a given name and a surname. In the Irish language, most surnames are patronymic surnames (distinct from patronyms, which are seen in Icelandic names for example). The form of a surname varies according to whethe ...

s were

anglicized Anglicisation or anglicization is a form of cultural assimilation whereby something non-English becomes assimilated into or influenced by the culture of England. It can be sociocultural, in which a non-English place adopts the English language ...

, the ''Ó'' commonly was either dropped or written as ''O. * the

interjection An interjection is a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling, situation or reaction. It is a diverse category, with many different types, such as exclamations ''(ouch!'', ''wow!''), curses (''da ...

''ó'' "oh"

Italian

, ''ó'' is an optional symbol (especially used in dictionaries) sometimes used to indicate that a stressed ''o'' should be pronounced with a close sound: ''córso'' , "course", as opposed to ''còrso'' , "Corsican" (but both are commonly written with no accent marks when the context is clear). A similar process may occur with ''é'' and ''è'', as in ''*pésca'', "fishing", and ''*pèsca'' "peach", in which the accent mark is not written (both are written as ''pesca'').

Kashubian

Ó is the 23rd letter of the

Kashubian alphabet The Kashubian or Cassubian alphabet (''kaszëbsczi alfabét'', ''kaszëbsczé abecadło'') is the script of the Kashubian language, based on the Latin alphabet. The Kashubian alphabet consists of 34 letters: A, Ą, Ã, B, C, D, E, É, Ë, F, G, ...

and represents . It also represents in southern dialects.

Kazakh

It was proposed in 2018 that Ó should be one of their

Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the Ancient Rome, ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered except several letters splitting—i.e. from , and from � ...

to replace Ө and represents (or ). The proposal was modified to Ö in late 2019.

Karakalpak

Ó/ó is the 21st letter of the

Karakalpak alphabet Karakalpak () is a Turkic language spoken by Karakalpaks in Karakalpakstan. It is divided into two dialects, Northeastern Karakalpak and Southwestern Karakalpak. It developed alongside Nogai and neighbouring Kazakh languages, being markedly influ ...

and represents .

Polish

is the 21st letter of the

Polish alphabet The Polish alphabet ( Polish: , ) is the script of the Polish language, the basis for the Polish system of orthography. It is based on the Latin alphabet but includes certain letters (9) with diacritics: the stroke (acute accent or bar) ...

, and represents . Historically it represented but morphed to over time (similar to English "oo").

Portuguese

In Portuguese, ó is used to mark a stressed in words whose stressed syllable is in an unpredictable location within the word, as in "pó" (dust) and "óculos" (glasses). If the location of the stressed syllable is predictable, the acute accent is not used. Ó contrasts with ô .

Romagnol

Romagnol Romagnol ( or ; ) is a Romance language spoken in the historical region of Romagna, consisting mainly of the southeastern part of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The name is derived from the Lombard name for the region, ''Romagna''. Romagnol is classifi ...

, ó is used to represent ː e.g. ''alóra'' ˈloːra"then".

Scottish Gaelic

Ó was once widely used in Scottish, but it has now been largely superseded by "ò". It can still be seen in certain writings but is no longer used in standard orthography.

Spanish

Ó is used in the Spanish language to denote an 'o' vowel with abnormal stress.

Sorbian

Ó represents in Upper Sorbian and represents or in, especially,

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Vietnamese

Vietnamese alphabet The Vietnamese alphabet (, ) is the modern writing script for the Vietnamese language. It uses the Latin script based on Romance languages like French language, French, originally developed by Francisco de Pina (1585–1625), a missionary from P ...

ó is the ''sắc'' tone (high-rising tone) of "o".

Character mappings

Key strokes and sound and a vowel

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users can type an "ó" by pressing on the numeric pad of the keyboard. "Ó" can be typed by pressing * In

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, pressing , then will produce the character ó. Pressing , then will produce the character Ó. Remember to not press shift ''before'' apostrophe, as that will not type this character. * Sound and vowel: is a closed-front back rounded vowel and is rounding on the incisors what the multiplications is following with the uvular vowel.

References

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