Oe (Cyrillic)

Oe or barred O ө; italics: Ө ө) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Cyrillic letter Oe
Phonetic usage:[ø], [œ], [o], [wʉ], [ɤ̹̈]
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
АБВГҐДЂ
ЃЕЀЁЄЖЗ
З́ЅИЍЙІЇ
ЈКЛЉМНЊ
ОŌПРСС́Т
ЋЌУӮЎФХ
ЦЧЏШЩЪЫ
ЬЭЮЯ
Non-Slavic letters
А́А̀ӐА̄А̊А̃Ӓ
Ӓ̄ӔӘӘ́Ә̃ӚВ̌
ҒГ̧Г̑Г̄Г̣Г̌Ҕ
ӺҒ̌ӶԀԂ
Д̆Д̣ԪԬД̆Ӗ
Е̄Е̃Ё̄Є̈ӁҖӜ
ԄҘӞЗ̌З̱З̣Ԑ
Ԑ̈ӠԆӢИ̃ҊӤ
И́ҚӃҠҞҜК̣
ԚӅԮԒԈӍӉ
ҢԨӇҤԊО́О̀
О̆О̂О̃ӦӦ̄ӨӨ̄
Ө́Ө̆ӪҨԤҦР̌
ҎԖҪС̣С̱Т̌Т̣
ҬԎУ̃Ӱ
Ӱ́ӲҮҮ́ҰХ̣Х̱
Х̮Х̑ҲӼӾҺҺ̈
ԦҴҶӴӋҸҼ
ҾЫ̆Ы̄ӸҌЭ̆Э̄
Э̇ӬӬ́Ӭ̄Ю̆Ю̈Ю̈́
Ю̄Я̆Я̄Я̈ԜӀ
Archaic letters
ҀѺ
ОУѠѼѾ
ѢѤѦ
ѪѨѬѮ
ѰѲԌ
ѴѶԘ
ԢԔԠԞ

Shape

Its form was copied from the Latin letter barred O ɵ) used in Jaꞑalif 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). 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-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, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Tuvan, Mongolian, and Yakut languages. It commonly represents the front rounded vowels /ø/ and /œ/, except in Mongolian where it represents /o:/ or /ɵ/. In Kazakh, this letter may also express /wʉ/. Recently, the letter has also been adopted in the spelling of the Komi-Yazva language, where it represents a close-mid centralized back unrounded or weakly rounded vowel /ɤ̹̈/. The International Phonetic Alphabet uses the identically shaped Latin counterpart, ɵ, to represent the close-mid central rounded vowel, and sometimes also the mid central rounded vowel.

Oe is most commonly romanized as Ö; but its ISO 9 transliteration is ô. In 2018, there were proposals to use Ó as a romanization of Oe in Kazakh, but a year later it was certified as Ö.

In Tuvan, Kyrgyz and Mongolian the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel.[1][2][3]

Computing codes

Character information
PreviewӨө
Unicode nameCYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
BARRED O
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
BARRED O
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode1256U+04E81257U+04E9
UTF-8211 168D3 A8211 169D3 A9
Numeric character referenceӨӨөө

See also

References

  1. "Tuvan language, alphabet and pronunciation". omniglot.com. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  2. "Кыргызский язык / Фонетика / Гласные". Кыргызский язык. TamgaSoft. 2016. Retrieved 1 Sep 2017.
  3. Campbell, George L.; King, Gareth (24 July 2013). "Compendium of the World's Languages". Routledge. Retrieved 14 June 2016 via Google Books.


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