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U with ogonek
Ų ų
Latin letter U with ogonek.svg
الاستخدام
نظام الكتابةLatin script
النوعalphabetic
لغة المنشأAssiniboine
Chipewyan
Dadibi
Dalecarlian
Elfdalian
Gwichʼin
Hän
Interslavic
Iñapari
Ixtlán Zapotec
Kaska
Lithuanian
Sierra Otomi
Sekani
Tagish
Tlingit
Tutchone
Winnebago
Unicode codepointU+0172, U+0173
التاريخ
التطور
  • Ų ų
مكافئات الترجمة الحرفيةũ
أخرى

U with ogonek (majuscule: Ų, minuscule: ų) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by addition of the ogonek to the letter U. It is used in Lithuanian,[1] Interslavic, Chipewyan, Dadibi, Dalecarlian, Gwichʼin, Hän, Iñapari, Kaska, Sierra Otomi, Sekani, Tagish, Tlingit, Tutchone, Winnebago, and Ixtlán Zapotec.

Usage

In Lithuanian, it is the 28th letter of the alphabet, and is pronounced as long close back rounded vowel ([uː]). In the past, the letter was used to denote the nasalized close back rounded vowel ([ũ]). Currently, it appears in the words that used to be nasalized in the past, for example in siųsti, which means send.[1]

It is used in Interslavic to denote the etymological presence of a big yus, which evolved into different sounds in Polish and Bulgarian compared to the other Slavic languages. The pronunciation ([o] ~ [ʊ]) depends on the accent of the speaker.[2]

The letter also appears in various Indigenous languages of North America, which are: Chipewyan, Dadibi, Dalecarlian, Gwichʼin, Hän, Iñapari, Kaska, Sierra Otomi, Sekani, Tagish, Tlingit, Tutchone, Winnebago, and Ixtlán Zapotec. In most of them, the letter represent the nasalized close back rounded vowel ([ũ]).

Encoding

الحرف Ų ų
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH OGONEK LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH OGONEK
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex
يونيكود 370 U+0172 371 U+0173
UTF-8 197 178 C5 B2 197 179 C5 B3
Numeric character reference Ų Ų ų ų

References

  1. ^ أ ب "Wymowa". lietpol.eu (in البولندية).
  2. ^ "Interslavic language". steen.free.fr/interslavic (in الإنجليزية).