Open O
Open o or turned c (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.
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Ɔ ɔ | |
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Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic and Logographic |
Unicode codepoint | U+0186, U+0254 |
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Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
The Yucatec Maya language used Ɔ as a consonant in the orthography of the Colonial period. Now dz or tz' is preferred.
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