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O with macron (Cyrillic)

O with macron (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic letter


O with macron (О̄ о̄; italics: О̄ о̄) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In all its forms it looks exactly like the Latin letter O with macron ō Ō ō).

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O with macron are used in the Evenki, Mansi, Nanai, Negidal, Orok, Ulch, Kildin Sami, Selkup, and Chechen languages.

O with macron also appears in the Rusyn language in Ukraine, representing a close allophone of /o/. However, this letter primarily features in materials for beginning readers; the same sound is otherwise represented with the Cyrillic letter O.[1][2][3]

Computing codes

Being a relatively recent letter, not present in any legacy 8-bit Cyrillic encoding, the letter Ō is not represented directly by a precomposed character in Unicode either; it has to be composed as О+◌̄ (U+0304).

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See also


References

  1. Материнськый язык: писемниця русинського языка. Мукачово: Общество им. А. Духновича. 1999. p. 13.
  2. "ruegrammatica". rueportal.eu.



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