Oʻ Explained

O with turned comma above right
Letter:Oʻ oʻ
Script:Latin script
Phonemes:pronounced as /link/
Unicode:U+004F U+02BB, U+006F U+02BB
Fam1:O
Usageperiod:1995 to present
Language:Uzbek language
Direction:Left-to-Right
Type:alphabet
Typedesc:ic

(o with turned comma above right; minuscule: ) is the 25th letter of the Uzbek Latin alphabet, representing the close-mid back rounded vowel pronounced as /link/. It was adopted in the revision of the alphabet, replacing Ö.[1] It was also used in the Karakalpak alphabet until 2016, when it was replaced with Ó. In the Uzbek Cyrillic alphabet, it corresponds to Ў.

Encodings

In Unicode, Oʻ is not encoded as a precomposed character, but rather as a sequence of or and . Since the modifier letter isn't readily typeable on the Uzbek Latin keyboard layouts shipped with Microsoft Windows as of 2022, the substitution of other characters such as and is very common.[2]

See also

References

  1. Web site: 71-I-son 06.05.1995. Oʻzbekiston Respublikasining "Lotin yozuviga asoslangan oʻzbek alifbosini joriy etish toʻgʻrisida"gi Qonuniga oʻzgartishlar kiritish haqida . National Database of Legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan . 22 December 2022. Uzbek.
  2. News: Qaysi biri to'g'ri: O'zbekiston, O'zbekiston, O'zbekiston yoki Oʻzbekiston? . Озодлик Радиоси . 16 August 2017 . 22 December 2022 . uz.