O with circumflex (О̂ о̂; ''О̂ о̂'') is a character in the
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Easte ...
. The letter was created and in the most common version of the
Udege language's alphabet, the
Khabarovsk version, used for the northern dialects. This letter has also been used historically in the
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the first language, first (native) language of a large majority of Ukrainians.
Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of t ...
, and in some 19th-century publications in the
Karelian language
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.
Usage
*
M. O. Maksymovych proposed new letters for usage in the
Ukrainian alphabet, based on the
etymological
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principles of spelling to preserve the old writing of Ukrainian. His orthography is known as . Of the letters proposed, О̂ was one of them.
*It is formally used in the
Rusyn language
Rusyn ( ; ; )http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2781/1/2011BaptieMPhil-1.pdf , p. 8. is an East Slavic language spoken by Rusyns in parts of Central and Eastern Europe, and written in the Cyrillic script. The majority of speakers live in Carpathian Rut ...
.
*It was also used in
Polish Cyrillic in the 1860s.
*It is also used in some dialects of some South Slavic languages such as
Bulgarian and
Serbian.
*It was also used in a 1820 publication in
Tver Karelian.
*In the northern dialects of Udege, the letter represents a glottalized .
Related letters
* O o :
Latin letter O
* Ô ô :
Latin letter Ô - a letter in
Slovak and
Vietnamese
Vietnamese may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia
* Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam
** Overseas Vietnamese, Vietnamese people living outside Vietna ...
* О о :
Cyrillic letter О
References
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Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic-script diacritics