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, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking cou ...

, 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 intelli ...

, 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 barred letter o. The character ɵ has been used i ...

, . 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 The Karelian language is spoken in Russia, mostly in the Karelian Republic and in a small region just north of Tver, though most residents there were expelled in 1939. Karelian has seen numerous proposed and adopted alphabets over the centuries, bo ...

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 The Kildin-class destroyer was a series of destroyers built for the Soviet Navy in the 1950s. They were a missile armed version of the , and the class was named for Kildin Island. F ...

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 sjd, Куэлнэгк нёа̄ррк , image_name= Kola peninsula.png , image_caption= Kola Peninsula as a part of Murmansk Oblast , image_size= 300px , image_alt= , map_image= Murmansk in Russia.svg , map_caption = Location of Murmansk Oblast ...

(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 o ...

(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 t ...

(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 East ...

, the only Slavic language to do so. Its sound is close to /y/, or in some dialects, /u/.

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{{Cyrillic-alphabet-stub Cyrillic letters with diacritics Letters with macron

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