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Closed U

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Closed U
Usage
Type	alphabetic
Language of origin	Unifon Quechua (formerly)
Sound values	/u/
History
Development	Υυ V
Time period	1878, 1960–present
Other
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Closed U ⟨⟩ is a letter of the Latin script. It has a form of the letter U closed above with a horizontal bar.

Gavino Pacheco Zegarra used a closed U in his phonetic alphabet for writing the Quechua family of languages in the French translation of Ollantay published in 1878.^[1]

The Unifon alphabet uses a capital form of closed U.^{[dubious – discuss]}

This letter has not yet been encoded in Unicode, but U+2A4C ⩌ CLOSED UNION WITH SERIFS resembles a closed U.

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