- Ɵ
Barred O (
majuscule : Unicode|Ɵ, minuscule: Unicode|ɵ) was a letter used inJanalif and other alphabets. formed theUniform Turkic Alphabet , for example,Azerbaijani alphabet in 1929, when the languages shifted from Arabic script into Latin script. It represented theopen-mid front rounded vowel IPA| [œ] .In many alphabets it was replaced by the Cyrillic letter Ө ө in 1939 and was again replaced by the Latin letter Ö ö in 1991 in Azerbaijani.
This letter is also part of the
African reference alphabet .The minuscule form IPA| [ɵ] is also used in the
International Phonetic Alphabet for theclose-mid central rounded vowel .It has no relation to the
slashed zero , letter Ø ø or Greek letter Θ θ, despite their similar shapes.Unicode
In
Unicode , the majuscule Unicode|Ɵ is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block at U+019F and the minuscule Unicode|ɵ is encoded in the IPA block at U+0275.ee also
*
Azerbaijani alphabet
*Latin letter Ö ö
*Cyrillic letter Ө ө
*Kɵpejek - a coin in TuvaExternal links
* [http://www.omniglot.com/writing/azeri.htm Azerbaijani language, alphabets and pronunciation by omniglot.com]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.