Ø

Ø (or minuscule: ø) is a letter used in the Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Southern Sámi languages. It is mostly used as to represent the mid front rounded vowels, such as [ø] and [œ] , except for Southern Sámi where it is used as an [oe] diphthong.

O with slash
Øø
Öö, Ǿǿ, Ø̈ø̈
Usage
Writing systemLatin script
TypeAlphabet
Language of originContested
Phonetic usage
Unicode codepointU+00D8, U+00F8
History
Development
Oo
  • Øø
Transliteration equivalentsOE oe, Öö, O/ o/
VariationsÖö, Ǿǿ, Ø̈ø̈
Other
Other letters commonly used withI, E

The name of this letter is the same as the sound it represents (see usage). Among English-speaking typographers the symbol may be called a "slashed O" or "o with stroke". Although these names suggest it is a ligature or a diacritical variant of the letter o, it is considered a separate letter in Danish and Norwegian, and it is alphabetized after z — thus x, y, z, æ, ø, and å.

In other languages that do not have the letter as part of the regular alphabet, or in limited character sets such as ASCII, ø may correctly be replaced with the digraph oe, although in practice it is often replaced with just o, e.g. in email addresses. It is equivalent to ö used in Swedish (and a number of other languages), and may also be replaced with ö, as was often the case with older typewriters in Denmark and Norway, and in national extensions of International Morse Code.

ø (minuscule) is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a close-mid front rounded vowel.

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