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Also known as Short U
Cyrillic letter used in Belarusian, Dungan, and Siberian Yupik
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Vinony's link graph records 327 inbound references to Ў, and connects out to Я, Cyrillic script and Karakalpak.
Vinony files it under Cyrillic letters and Vowel letters.
Vinony links it to 51 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Type
- Alphabetic
- Sound values
- [ w ] , [ o ] ( Uzbek )
- In unicode
- U+040E
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Cyrillic script
- Has part
- breve
- Creator
- Pyotr Bessonov
- Image
- Cyrillic letter short U - uppercase and lowercase.svg
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- publication date
- 1870-00-00
- Unicode character
- ў
- copyright status
- public domain
- Commons category
- Ў
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ў” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.