Basic Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd   Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv   Ww Xx Yy Zz

O is the fifteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is a (eɪ plural B is the second letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled bee or occasionally be (biː plural bees. C is the third letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled cee or occasionally ce (siː D is the fourth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled dee or occasionally de (diː E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled e (iː plural es or ees (also written E's E F is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ef or eff (ɛf G is the seventh letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled gee or occasionally ge (dʒiː I is the ninth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its English name is i (aɪ J is the tenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet; it was the last of the 26 letters to be added K is the eleventh letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled kay (keɪ L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is el or occasionally ell (ɛl M is the thirteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled em (ɛm N is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled en (ɛn P is the sixteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled pee or occasionally pe (piː Q is the seventeenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled cue (kjuː R is the eighteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ar (ɑr pronounced or) S is the nineteenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ess or occasionally es (ɛs generally es- T is the twentieth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled tee or occasionally te (tiː U is the twenty-first letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled u (juː V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled vee or occasionally ve (viː W is the twenty-third letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled double-u (ˈdʌbljuː X is the twenty-fourth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ex or occasionally ecks (ɛks plural exes The letter Y is the twenty-fifth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the modern Latin alphabet. An alphabet is a standardized set of letters basic written symbols each of which roughly represents a Phoneme, a Spoken language, either Its name in English is spelled o (pronounced /oʊ/), plural oes. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States ^[1]

History

Egyptian hieroglyph `ir	Proto-Semitic O	Phoenician O	Etruscan O	Greek Omicron

The letter was derived from the Semitic `Ayin (eye), which represented a consonant, probably the voiced pharyngeal fricative (IPA: [ʕ]), the sound represented by the Arabic letter ع called `Ayn. For the village in Azerbaijan see Əyin. or is the sixteenth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician The voiced pharyngeal approximant/fricative is a type of Consonantal sound used in some spoken Languages The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing several languages of Asia and Africa such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. This Semitic letter in its original form seems to have been inspired by a similar Egyptian hieroglyph for "eye".

The Greeks are thought to have come up with the innovation of vowel characters, and lacking a pharyngeal consonant, employed this letter as the Greek O to represent the vowel /o/, a sound it maintained in Etruscan and Latin. The Greek alphabet (Ελληνικό αλφάβητο is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early Omicron or Omikron (uppercase Ο, lowercase ο, literally "small o": Όμικρον o mikron, micron meaning 'small' in contrast The Etruscan Language was spoken and written by the Etruscan civilization in the ancient region of Etruria (modern Tuscany plus western Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. In Greek, a variation of the form later came to distinguish this long sound (Omega, meaning "large O") from the short o (Omicron, meaning "small o"). OMEGA is the premier Counter-terrorism unit of Latvia. Founded in 1992 OMEGA cooperates with many other counter-terrorism units over the world

Its graphic form has also remained fairly constant from Phoenician times until today. Indeed, even alphabets constructed "from scratch", i. e. not derived from Semitic, usually have similar forms to represent this sound -- for example the creators of the Afaka and Ol Chiki scripts, each invented in different parts of the world in the last century, both attributed their vowels for 'O' to the shape of the mouth when making this sound. The Afaka script (afaka sikifi is a Syllabary of 56 letters devised in 1908 for the Ndyuka language an English-based creole of Surinam The Ol Chiki script also known as Ol Cemetʼ ("language of writing" Ol Ciki, Ol (and sometimes as the Santali alphabet) was

Usage

O is most commonly associated with the close-mid back rounded vowel [o] in many languages. The close-mid back rounded vowel is a type of Vowel sound used in some spoken Languages The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents This form is colloquially termed the "long o" in English, but the sound used for it is actually different. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States In the British prestigious dialect called Received Pronunciation, the diphthong (əʊ) appears. Received Pronunciation ( RP) is a form of Pronunciation of the English language (specifically British English) which has long been perceived as In Phonetics, a diphthong (also gliding vowel) (from Greek grc δίφθογγος "diphthongos" literally "with two sounds" or "with This pronunciation and its spelling sometimes appears in British attempts to describe the French pronunciation of the letter ([o] above); North Americans use [o] for this purpose, whereas the sound they use is really the diphthong: /oʊ/. In Phonetics, a diphthong (also gliding vowel) (from Greek grc δίφθογγος "diphthongos" literally "with two sounds" or "with

In English there is also a "short O", which also has several pronunciations. Received pronunciation uses O to represent an open back rounded vowel (ɒ). The open back rounded vowel is a type of Vowel sound used in some spoken Languages The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that The standard pronunciation of the stressed form of this letter in parts of North America is the open-mid back rounded vowel (ɔ). The open-mid back rounded vowel is a type of Vowel sound used in some spoken Languages The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet When the vowel is unstressed, its pronunciation often drops back to an open front unrounded vowel (a). The open front unrounded vowel is a type of Vowel sound used in some spoken Languages The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet The Russian language has a similar unstressed form for its equivalent letter O, which looks the same. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages

Common digraphs include OO, which represents either /ʊ/ or /u/; OI which typically represents the diphthong /ɔɪ/; and OA, OE, and OU represent a variety of pronunciations depending on context and etymology.

Other languages use O for various values, usually back vowels which are at least partly open. Derived letters such as Ö and Ø have been created for the alphabets of some languages to distinguish values that were not present in Latin and Greek, particularly rounded front vowels. O-Umlaut The glyph O with Umlaut appears in the German alphabet. The " Ø " ( minuscule: " ø " is a Vowel and a letter used in the Danish, Faroese and Norwegian

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, [o] represents the close-mid back rounded vowel. The close-mid back rounded vowel is a type of Vowel sound used in some spoken Languages The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents

Codes for computing

Alternative representations of O

NATO phonetic		Morse code
Oscar		–––
Signal flag	Flag semaphore	ASL Manual	Braille

In Unicode the capital O is codepoint U+004F and the lowercase o is U+006F. The NATO phonetic alphabet, more formally the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet, is the most widely used Spelling alphabet. Morse code is a Character encoding for transmitting telegraphic information using standardized sequences of short and long elements to represent the letters numerals Flag semaphore is a system for conveying information at a distance by means of visual signals with hand-held flags rods disks paddles or occasionally bare or gloved hands The American Manual Alphabet is a Manual alphabet that augments the vocabulary of American Sign Language when spelling individual letters of a word is the preferred The Braille system is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's Capital letters or majuscules pronunciation /məˈdʒʌskyuls ˈmædʒəˌskyuls/ in the Roman alphabet A, B, C, D,

The ASCII code for capital O is 79 and for lowercase o is 111; or in binary 01001111 and 01101111, correspondingly. American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII) The binary numeral system, or base-2 number system, is a Numeral system that represents numeric values using two symbols usually 0 and 1.

The EBCDIC code for capital O is 214 and for lowercase o is 150. Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ( EBCDIC) is an 8- Bit Character encoding ( Code page) used on IBM mainframe Operating

The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "O" and "o" for upper and lower case respectively. A numeric character reference (NCR is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-based markup languages such as HTML and XML. HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure Don't change "Extensible"

Distinguishing O from zero

See 0: Distinguishing zero from O

Meanings of O

See O (disambiguation). O is the fifteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet O may also refer to In science and mathematics: Haplogroup O (Y-DNA

Similar letters and symbols

• 0 (zero)
• Oh
• ò o grave (0x00F2)
• ó o acute (0x00F3)
• ô o circumflex (0x00F4)
• õ o tilde (0x00F5)
• ö o diaeresis (0x00F6)
• ø o stroke (0x00F8)
• ō o macron (0x014D)
• ŏ o breve (0x014F)
• ő o double acute (0x0151)
• œ oe ligature (0x0153)
• ơ o horn (0x01A1)
• ǒ o caron (0x01D2)
• ǫ o ogonek (0x01EB)
• ǭ o ogonek macron (0x01ED)
• ǿ o stroke acute (0x01FF)
• ȍ o double grave (0x020D)
• ȏ o inverted breve (0x020F)
• ȫ o diaeresis macron (0x022B)
• ȭ o tilde macron (0x022D)
• ȯ o dot above (0x022F)
• ȱ o dot above and macron (0x0231)
• ṍ o tilde acute (0x1E4D)
• ṏ o tilde diaeresis (0x1E4F)
• ṑ o macron grave (0x1E51)
• ṓ o macron acute (0x1E53)
• ọ o dot below (0x1ECD)
• ỏ o hook above (0x1ECF)
• ố o circumflex acute (0x1ED1)
• ồ o circumflex grave (0x1ED3)
• ổ o circumflex hook above (0x1ED5)
• ỗ o circumflex tilde (0x1ED7)
• ộ o circumflex dot below (0x1ED9)
• ớ o horn acute (0x1EDB)
• ờ o horn grave (0x1EDD)
• ở o horn hook above (0x1EDF)
• ỡ o horn tilde (0x1EE1)
• ợ o horn dot below (0x1EE3)
• ɵ o bar (0x0275)
• ο Greek omicron (0x03BF)
• о Cyrillic o (0x043E)

See also

References

1. ^ "O" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1999); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993). Pitch The grave accent was first used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, where it occurred only on the last syllable of a word in cases where the History An early precursor of the acute accent was the apex, used in Latin inscriptions to mark long vowels. Pitch The circumflex accent was first used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, where it occurred (subject to certain rules on the accented syllable Estonian In Estonian, Õ is the 27th letter of the alphabet (between W and Ä) representing the Close-mid back unrounded vowel O-Umlaut The glyph O with Umlaut appears in the German alphabet. 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Its name in English is spelled vee or occasionally ve (viː W is the twenty-third letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled double-u (ˈdʌbljuː X is the twenty-fourth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ex or occasionally ecks (ɛks plural exes The letter Y is the twenty-fifth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the modern Latin alphabet. A diacritic ( also called a diacritic or diacritical mark, point, or sign, is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation Ó, ó ( O - acute) is a letter in the Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Polish, Czech Ò, ò ( O - grave) is a letter of Kashubian language. 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