U with macron (Ӯ ӯ; italics: ''Ӯ ӯ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, ...
,
[ derived from the Cyrillic letter U (У у ''У у'').
U with macron is used in the alphabet of the ]Tajik language
Tajik (Tajik: , , ), also called Tajiki Persian (Tajik: , , ) or Tajiki, is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by Tajiks. It is closely related to neighbouring Dari with which it forms a continuum of mutually intelligible ...
, where it represents the close-mid central rounded vowel
The close-mid central rounded vowel, or high-mid central rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a lowercase Ɵ, barred letter o.
The character ɵ has been use ...
, . Accordingly, although the letter shape is a modification of , the only aspect of the sound shared with is that both are relatively close, rounded vowels.
In 1937, it was also proposed for use in the Karelian Cyrillic alphabet to represent , but was not adopted.
U with macron is used to represent long in Kildin Sami Kildin may refer to:
* Kildin Island
* Kildin class destroyer
* Kildin Sami
* Ostrov (air base)
Ostrov (Russian: ''Веретье'' ("Veret"); also Ostrov-5, Gorokhovka) is a Russian Air Force air base and Mansi
Mansi may refer to:
People
* Mansi people, an indigenous people living in Tyumen Oblast, Russia
** Mansi language
* Giovanni Domenico Mansi (1692–1769), Italian theologian, scholar, historian and archbishop
* Kate Mansi, American actress born in ...
, two Uralic languages spoken on the Kola peninsula
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(Kildin) and Western Siberia
Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part of ...
(Mansi). In these languages, length is distinctive, and the macron is used to mark the long version of all the vowels.
U with macron is also used in the Aleut language
Aleut () or ''Unangam Tunuu'' is the language spoken by the Aleut living in the Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, Commander Islands, and the Alaska Peninsula (in Aleut , the origin of the state name Alaska). Aleut is the sole language in the ...
(Bering dialect). It is the thirty-sixth letter of the modern Aleut alphabet.
U with macron is also used in Carpatho-Rusyn
Rusyn (; rue, label= Carpathian Rusyn, русиньскый язык, translit=rusîn'skyj jazyk; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, руски язик, translit=ruski jazik),http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2781/1/2011BaptieMPhil-1.pdf , p. 8. is an Eas ...
, the only Slavic language to do so. Its sound is close to /y/, or in some dialects, /u/.
Computing codes
See also
*U u : Latin letter U
*Ū ū : Latin letter U with macron - a Latvian, Latgalian, Lithuanian, Livonian, and Samogitian letter
*Y y : Latin letter Y
*Ȳ ȳ : Latin letter Y with macron - a similar looking letter
*Ў ў : Cyrillic letter Short U
*Ӱ ӱ : Cyrillic letter U with diaeresis
*Ӳ ӳ : Cyrillic letter U with double acute
*Ү ү : Cyrillic letter straight U
*Ұ ұ : Cyrillic letter Straight U with stroke
*Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version 15.0 Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU+A ...
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