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Ǫ

Letter of the Latin alphabet

O with ogonek
Ǫ ǫ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
In Unicode	U+01EA, U+01EB
History
Development	Ο ο 𐌏 O o Ǫ ǫ
Other
Writing direction	Left-to-Right
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O with ogonek (majuscule: Ǫ, minuscule: ǫ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by addition of the ogonek to the letter O. It is used in Western Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua, Muscogee, Dadibi, Gwichʼin, Erie,

and Navajo.[1] It is also used in the Latin transcription of Old Church Slavonic, and Proto-Slavic language, as well as in Slavistic Phonetic Alphabet.[2] It is also still in use for the writing of Old Norse, and used to be used sporadically in Polish.[3]

Usage

The letter is used in autochthonic languages of North America: Western Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua, Muscogee, Dadibi, Gwichʼin, Erie, and Navajo.^[1] In such languages, it represents either nasalized close-mid back rounded vowel ([õ]), or nasalized ([ɔ̃]).

It is also used in the Latin transcription of Old Church Slavonic where it represents the nasal back vowel, as well as in Proto-Slavic language where it represents labialized non-front vowel. It is also used in Slavistic Phonetic Alphabet, where it represents the nasalized O-sound, for example, the pronunciation of ĄinPolish.^[2]

It was used in the Old Norse, where it represented the open back rounded vowel ([ɒ]) sound. Additionally, the letter sporadically used to be an alternative to ĄinPolish.^[3]

Encoding

References

Bibliography

• J.M. McDonough, The Navajo Sound System. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. ISBN 978-1-4020-1351-5.
• Michał Suchorowski, Zabawki dramatyczne. vol. 1. Lviv. 1831.

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