Oe or barred O (Ө ө; italics: Ө ө) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
Shape Its form was copied from the Latin letter barred O (Ɵ ɵ) used in Jaꞑalif and other alphabets.
Despite having a similar shape, it is related neither to the Greek letter theta (Θ θ/) nor to the archaic Cyrillic letter fita (Ѳ ѳ).
Usage Oe is used in the alphabets of the Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Komi-Yazva, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Sakha, Selkup, Tatar and Tuvan languages.
In Turkic languages, it commonly represents the front rounded vowels // or //. In Kazakh and Karakalpak, it may also express //. In Mongolic languages, it usually represents // or //. The letter has also been adopted in the spelling of the Komi-Yazva language, where it represents a close-mid centralized back unrounded or weakly rounded vowel //. In Kyrgyz, Mongolian and Tuvan, the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel.
Language Sound Bashkir Buryat Kalmyk Karakalpak Kazakh Komi-Yazva Kyrgyz Mongolian Sakha Selkup Tatar Tuvan Uilta
Until a new alphabet was published in 2016, Oe was used to represent // in Negidal.
Oe is most commonly romanized as ; but its ISO 9 transliteration is . In 2018, there were proposals to use as a romanization of Oe in Kazakh, but a year later it was certified as .
The International Phonetic Alphabet uses the identically shaped Latin counterpart, ɵ, to represent the close-mid central rounded vowel, and sometimes also the mid central rounded vowel.
Computing codes
See also Ö ö : O with diaeresis – a German, Azerbaijani, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Swedish, Turkish and Turkmen letter Ơ ơ : Latin letter O with horn, used in Vietnamese Ø ø : Latin letter O with stroke, used in Danish Õ õ : Latin letter O with tilde, used in Estonian Œ œ : Ligature Oe О о : Cyrillic letter O Ӧ ӧ : Cyrillic letter O with diaeresis Ӫ ӫ : Cyrillic letter oe with diaeresis
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