Cyrillic letter used in Belarusian, Dungan, and Siberian Yupik
Key facts
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Type
- Alphabetic
- Sound values
- [ w ] , [ o ] ( Uzbek )
- In unicode
- U+040E
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Short U (Ў ў; italics: Ў ў) or U with breve is a letter of the Cyrillic script. The only Slavic language using the letter in its orthography is Belarusian, but it is also used as a phonetic symbol in some Russian and Ukrainian dictionaries. Among the non-Slavic languages using Cyrillic alphabets, ў is used in Dungan, Karakalpak, Karachay-Balkar, Mansi, Sakhalin Nivkh, Ossetian and Siberian Yupik. It is also used in Uzbek – this letter corresponds to Oʻ in the Uzbek Latin alphabet.
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