Latin omega, or simply omega, is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet, based on the lowercase shape of the Greek letter omega . 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 or Latin upsilon are found instead. The Italian humanist Giovan Giꞷrgio Trissino proposed in 1524 a reform of Italian orthography that included lowercase and uppercase omega for the open sound (). He later reassigned it to the closed (). A variation of Latin omega, with a loop has been used within the Initial Teaching Alphabet since the 1960s to represent (the vowel in boot) alongside standard Latin omega, which represents (the vowel in book).
Encoding
See also Ω ω : Greek letter Omega Ѡ ѡ : Cyrillic letter Omega 𐐗 𐐿 : Deseret letter Kay
Bibliography
Pascal Boyeldieu, Stefan Elders, Gudrun Miehe. 2008. Grammaire koulango (parler de Bouna, Côte d’Ivoire). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. Diocèse de Bondoukou Nassian. 1992. Syllabaire koulango : réservé aux élèves des cours bibliques en Koulango (Inspiré par les syllabaires de la Société Internationale de Linguistique, collection: « Je lis ma langue », Nouvelles Éditions Africaines / EDICEF). Nassian: Diocèse de Bondoukou. Michael Mann and David Dalby. 1987. A thesaurus of African languages: A classified and annotated inventory of the spoken languages of Africa with an appendix on their written representation. London: Hans Zell Publishers. Michael Everson, Denis Jacquerye, Chris Lilley. Proposal for the addition of ten Latin characters to the UCS . ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, Document N4297, 2012-07-26. Henry Frieland Buckner. A Grammar of Maskωke, or Creek Language, Marion, Alabama, 1860.