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Ò, ò (o-grave) is a letter of the Latin script.

It is used in Catalan, Emilian, Lombard, Papiamento, Occitan, Kashubian, Romagnol, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Taos, Vietnamese, Haitian Creole, Louisiana Creole, Norwegian, Welsh and Italian.

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Usage in various languages

Chinese

In Chinese pinyin, ò is the yángqù tone (阳去, falling tone) of "o".

Emilian

Ò is used to represent Emilian pronunciation: [ɔː] , e.g. òsEmilian pronunciation: [ɔːs] "bone".

Italian

In Italian, the grave accent is used over any vowel to indicate word-final stress: Niccolò (equivalent of Nicholas and the forename of Machiavelli).

It can also be used on the nonfinal vowels o and e to indicate that the vowel is stressed and that it is open: còrso, "Corsican", vs. córso, "course"/"run", the past participle of "correre". Ò represents the open-mid back rounded vowel /ɔ/ and È represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel /ɛ/.

Kashubian

Ò is the 28th letter of the Kashubian alphabet and represents /wɛ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨we⟩ in "wet".

Lombard

It is used to represent vocalic phonemes /ɔ/ and /ɔː/ in every tonic occurrence to distinguish them from /o/ and /oː/ represented by O, e.g. fiòrd /ˈfjɔːrd/ (fjord) and sord /ˈsuːrd/ (deaf); còta /ˈkɔta/ (cooked) and sota /ˈsota/ (under/below).

Louisiana Creole

It is used to represent /ɔ/ by many (but not all) speakers to distinguish it from /o/, represented by o. [1]

Macedonian

In Macedonian, о̀̀ is used to differentiate the word о̀̀д (English: walk) from the more common од (English: from). Both о̀̀ and о are pronounced as [o] .

Norwegian

Ò can be found in the Norwegian word òg which is an alternative spelling of også, meaning "also". This word is found in both Nynorsk and Bokmål.

Romagnol

Ò is used to represent Romagnol pronunciation: [ɔ] , e.g. piòRomagnol pronunciation: [pjɔ] "more".

Vietnamese

In the Vietnamese alphabet, ò is the huyền tone (falling tone) of "o".

Welsh

In Welsh, ò is sometimes used, usually in words borrowed from another language, to mark vowels that are short when a long vowel would normally be expected, e.g., clòs (English: close [of the weather]).

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References

  1. ↑ Valdman, Albert; Klingler, Thomas A., eds. (1998). Dictionary of Louisiana Creole. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN   978-0-253-33451-0.
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