O with circumflex (О̂ о̂; ''О̂ о̂'') is a character in the
Cyrillic alphabet
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, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking coun ...
. The letter was created and in the most common version of the
Udege language's alphabet: the
Khabarovsk version, used for the northern dialects. This letter has also been used historically in the
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian ( uk, украї́нська мо́ва, translit=ukrainska mova, label=native name, ) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state lang ...
.
Usage
M. O. Maksymovych proposed new letters for usage in the
Ukrainian
Ukrainian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Ukraine
* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
* Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine
* Som ...
Alphabet, based on the
etymological
Etymology () The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time". is the study of the history of the form of words an ...
principles of spelling to preserve the old writing of Ukrainian. Of the letters proposed О̂ was one of them.
Related letters
* O o :
Latin letter O
* Ô ô :
Latin letter Ô - a letter in
Slovak and
Vietnamese
Vietnamese may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia
** A citizen of Vietnam. See Demographics of Vietnam.
* Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam
** Overse ...
* О о :
Cyrillic letter О
References
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Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic-script diacritics