Open O

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Open o (majuscule: Ɔ, minuscule: ɔ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it represents the open-mid back rounded vowel. It is used in the orthographies of many African languages using the African reference alphabet.

[edit] Unicode

In Unicode, the majuscule Ɔ is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block at U+0186 and the minuscule ɔ is encoded at U+0254.

[edit] Similar letters

Johann Martin Schleyer proposed an alternate form with a broken O for Ö in Volapük but it was rarely used.

The first of these Claudian letters is the antisigma.

The letter looks like a reversed C. Claudius introduced a reversed C (the antisigma) with the intention of replacing bs and ps.

The Yucatec Maya language used a reversed C as a consonant in the orthography of the Colonial period. Now dz or tz' is preferred.

[edit] See also

• Open E
• Writing systems of Africa (section on Latin script)

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