Oe (Cyrillic)
Cyrillic letter used in various languages
Oe or barred O (Ө ө; italics: Ө ө) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
01Shape
Its form was copied from the Latin letter barred O (Ɵ ɵ) used in Jaꞑalif and other alphabets.
Despite having a similar shape, it is related neither to the Greek letter theta (Θ θ/ϑ) nor to the archaic Cyrillic letter fita (Ѳ ѳ).
02Usage
Oe is used in the alphabets of the Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Komi-Yazva, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Sakha, Selkup, Tatar and Tuvan languages.
In Turkic languages, it commonly represents the front rounded vowels /ø/ or /œ/. In Kazakh and Karakalpak, it may also express /wʉ/. In Mongolic languages, it usually represents /o/ or /ɵ/. The letter has also been adopted in the spelling of the Komi-Yazva language, where it represents a close-mid centralized back unrounded or weakly rounded vowel /ɤ̹̈/. In Kyrgyz, Mongolian and Tuvan, the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel.
| Language | Sound |
|---|---|
| Bashkir | [ø̝~ʏ̞~ɵ] |
| Buryat | [ɵ] |
| Kalmyk | [o~ø] |
| Karakalpak | [œ], [wʏ] |
| Kazakh | [ø~œ], [wʉ] |
| Komi-Yazva | [ɤ̹̈] |
| Kyrgyz | [ø~œ] |
| Mongolian | [o~ø] |
| Sakha | [ø] |
| Selkup | [ø] |
| Tatar | [ø̆~ɵ̆] |
| Tuvan | [ø] |
| Uilta | [o~ø] |
Until a new alphabet was published in 2016, Oe was used to represent /ø/ in Negidal.
Oe is most commonly romanized as ⟨Ö⟩; but its ISO 9 transliteration is ⟨ô⟩. In 2018, there were proposals to use ⟨Ó⟩ as a romanization of Oe in Kazakh, but a year later it was certified as ⟨Ö⟩.
The International Phonetic Alphabet uses the identically shaped Latin counterpart, ɵ, to represent the close-mid central rounded vowel, and sometimes also the mid central rounded vowel.
03Computing codes
| Preview | Ө | ө | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BARRED O |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BARRED O | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1256 | U+04E8 | 1257 | U+04E9 |
| UTF-8 | 211 168 | D3 A8 | 211 169 | D3 A9 |
| Numeric character reference | Ө | Ө | ө | ө |
Sources and credits
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- Cyrillic letter Oe.svg by Пакко, Public domain
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