O with diaeresis (Ӧ ӧ; italics: Ӧ ӧ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In all its forms it looks exactly like the Latin letter Ö (Ö ö Ö ö).
O with diaeresis is used in the alphabets of the Altai, Khanty, Khakas, Komi, Kurdish, Mari, Shor and Udmurt languages.
Usage
editIn Altai, Khakas, Khanty and Shor, it represents the close-mid front rounded vowel /ø/, like the pronunciation of the ⟨ir⟩ in "bird" in non-rhotic dialects of English.
In Komi, it represents the schwa /ə/, like the ⟨a⟩ in "allow".
In Kurdish, it represents the near-close near-back rounded vowel /ʊ/, like the ⟨oo⟩ in "book".
In Mari, it represents the open-mid front rounded vowel /œ/, similar to /ø/.
In Udmurt, it represents the open-mid back unrounded vowel /ʌ/, like the ⟨u⟩ in "up".
In Russian books until the beginning of the 20th century, the letter Ӧ has been sporadically used instead of Ё in foreign names and loanwords (for example, the city of Cologne, Germany, which is Köln in German, might have been rendered in Russian as "Кӧльн").[1]
In Tatar, this letter appeared in the 1861 Cyrillic orthography by Nikolay Ilminsky. This letter was replaced by Ө in 1939.
Computing codes
editPreview | Ӧ | ӧ | ||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1254 | U+04E6 | 1255 | U+04E7 |
UTF-8 | 211 166 | D3 A6 | 211 167 | D3 A7 |
Numeric character reference | Ӧ |
Ӧ |
ӧ |
ӧ |
See also
edit- Ö ö : Latin letter 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
- Ø ø : Latin letter O with stroke
- Õ õ : Latin letter O with tilde, used in Estonian
- Œ œ : Ligature Oe
- О о : Cyrillic letter O
- Ө ө : Cyrillic letter Oe
- Ӫ ӫ : Cyrillic letter Oe with diaeresis
- Cyrillic characters in Unicode
References
edit- ^ Носков, Сергей (2016-07-04). Самоучитель немецкого языка (in Russian). Litres. ISBN 978-5-04-016539-1.