Oni, or On (Asomtavruli: ; Nuskhuri: ; Mkhedruli; ო or ʟ; Mtavruli: Ო; ) is the 16th letter of the three Georgian scripts.Machavariani, p. 136 The letter Oni can also be spelled like the Latin letter L, however this version of writing Oni has fallen out of favour.
In the system of Georgian numerals, it has a value of 70.Mchedlidze, (2) p. 58 Oni commonly represents the mid back rounded vowel ,Aronson, Howard Isaac. Georgian: A Reading Grammar. — Columbus, OH : Slavica Publishers, 1990. — p. 18. — ISBN 978-0-89357-207-5 like between the pronunciation of in "story" and the pronunciation of in "yawn" (Received Pronunciation). It is typically romanized with the letter O.
An additional mkhedruli oni letters, ო̈ with an umlaut, ო̄ with a macron and ო̄̈ with both umlaut and macron are used in the Svan language.Varlam Topuria, A Course of the Svan Language Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, pp. 15-17
Letter asomtavrulinuskhurimkhedrulimtavrulistandardalternative
Stroke order asomtavruliMchedlidze, I, p. 105nuskhuriMchedlidze, I, p. 107mkhedruliMchedlidze, I, p. 110standardalternative
With diacritic
Braille mkhedruliUNESCO, World Braille Usage, Third Edition, Washington, D.C. p. 45
Computer encodings
See also Latin letter O Cyrillic letter O Greek letter Omega (ω)
References
Bibliography Mchedlidze, T. (1) The restored Georgian alphabet, Fulda, Germany, 2013 Mchedlidze, T. (2) The Georgian script; Dictionary and guide, Fulda, Germany, 2013 Machavariani, E. Georgian manuscripts, Tbilisi, 2011 The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (1) Georgian, 1991-2013 The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (2) Georgian Supplement, 1991-2013