O with
macron (О̄ о̄; italics:
''О̄ о̄'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic 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, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
. In all its forms it
looks exactly like the
Latin letter O with macron (Ō ō
''Ō ō'').
O with macron are used in the
Evenki,
Mansi
Mansi may refer to:
* Mansi people, an Indigenous people of Russia
** Mansi language
*Mansi (name), given name and surname
*Mansi Junction railway station
* Mansi Township, Myanmar
** Mansi, Myanmar, a town in the Kachin State of Myanmar (Burma)
* ...
,
Nanai,
Negidal,
Orok,
Ulch,
Kildin Sami Kildin may refer to:
* Kildin Island
Kildin (also Kilduin; , North Sami: Gieldasuolu) is a small Russian island in the Barents Sea, off the Russian shore and about 120 km from Norway. Administratively, Kildin belongs to the Murmansk Obla ...
,
Selkup, and
Chechen languages.
O with macron also appears in the
Rusyn language
Rusyn ( ; ; )http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2781/1/2011BaptieMPhil-1.pdf , p. 8. is an East Slavic language spoken by Rusyns in parts of Central and Eastern Europe, and written in the Cyrillic script. The majority of speakers live in Carpathian Rut ...
in Ukraine, representing a
close allophone
In phonology, an allophone (; from the Greek , , 'other' and , , 'voice, sound') is one of multiple possible spoken soundsor '' phones''used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language. For example, in English, the voiceless plos ...
of
/o/. However, this letter primarily features in materials for beginning readers; the same sound is otherwise represented with the Cyrillic letter
O.
Computing codes
See also
*O o :
Latin letter O
*Ō ō :
Latin letter Ō - an archaic letter in
Latvian, and a letter in
Latgalian,
Livonian,
Samogitian, and
Silesian
*О о :
Cyrillic letter О
*
Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version , 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+A64 ...
References
Cyrillic letters with diacritics
Letters with macron
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