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امیکرون
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Omicron (, ; uppercase Ο, lowercase ο, ) is the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. This letter is derived from the Phoenician letter ayin: 16px|class=skin-invert. In classical Greek, omicron represented the close-mid back rounded vowel in contrast to omega, which represented the open-mid back rounded vowel , and the digraph which represented the long close back rounded vowel . In modern Greek, both omicron and omega represent the mid back rounded vowel . Letters that arose from omicron include Roman O and Cyrillic O and Ю. The name of the letter was originally ( ), but it was later change
Omicron (Ο/ο) is the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter ayin, and it represents a back rounded vowel sound. The letter is important historically because it gave rise to the letter O in both the Roman and Cyrillic alphabets, making it a foundational character in multiple writing systems.
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