Latin omega

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Example of uppercase and lowercase Latin omega

Latin omega, or simply omega, is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet, based on the lowercase shape of the Greek letter omega ⟨ω⟩. It was included as a Latin letter in the Mann and Dalby 1982 revision of the African Reference Alphabet and has been used as such in some publications in the Kulango languages in Côte d'Ivoire in the 1990s. In other Kulango publications the letters V with hook ⟨Ʋ⟩ or Latin upsilon ⟨Ʊ⟩ are found instead. The Italian humanist Giovan Giωrgio Trissino proposed in 1524 a reform of Italian orthography that included lowercase and uppercase omega for the open ⟨o⟩ sound ( [ɔ] ). [1] He later reassigned it to the closed ⟨o⟩ ( [o] ). [2]

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Character information
PreviewꞶꞷɷ𐞤
Unicode nameLATIN CAPITAL LETTER OMEGALATIN SMALL LETTER OMEGALATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED OMEGAMODIFIER LETTER SMALL CLOSED OMEGA
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechexdechex
Unicode 42934U+A7B642935U+A7B7631U+027767492U+107A4
UTF-8 234 158 182EA 9E B6234 158 183EA 9E B7201 183C9 B7240 144 158 164F0 90 9E A4
UTF-16 42934A7B642935A7B7631027755297 57252D801 DFA4
Numeric character reference ꞶꞶꞷꞷɷɷ𐞤𐞤

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Bibliography

  1. ↑ Trissino, Giovan Giωrgio (1524). De le lettere nuωvamente aggiunte ne la lingua Italiana  (in Italian) – via Wikisource. ma quando ʃi prenderà tωʃco per veneno, ε tωrre per pigliare, ciωὲ infinito di tωglio vεrbo, alhora ʃi ʃcriverà per ω apεrto;[...] le quali tutte hanno le loro majuʃcule, che ʃono Ɛ, Ꞷ, Ӡ, J, V.
  2. ↑ D'Achille, Paolo (2011). "Trissino, Gian Giorgio in "Enciclopedia dell'Italiano"". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Treccani. Retrieved 19 October 2022.


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