Ou (letter)

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The Ȣ ligature of the Greek letters ο and υ was frequently used in Byzantine manuscripts.

The ligature is now also used in the context of the Latin alphabet, interpreted as a ligature of Latin o and u, for example in the orthography of the Wyandot language[citation needed] and of Algonquian languages.

The same ligature was also used in the context of the Cyrillic alphabet, see Uk (Cyrillic).

This 1871 Ojibwe calendar has "ȣabikoni kisis" for what is today written "waabigwanii-giizis".
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This 1871 Ojibwe calendar has "ȣabikoni kisis" for what is today written "waabigwanii-giizis".

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In Unicode it is in the Latin Extended-B range at code points U+0222 (uppercase) and U+0223 (lowercase). In older character encodings (such as ISO 8859) and locales where Unicode is not available, it is usually represented by an italic 8 glyph[citation needed].

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