Ø (or minuscule: ø) is a letter used in the Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Southern Sámi languages. It is mostly used to represent the mid front rounded vowels, such as and , except for Southern Sámi where it is used as an diphthong.
Key facts
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+00D8, U+00F8
- Grapheme.name
- O with slash
- Grapheme.associates
- I, E
- Grapheme.variations
- Öö, Ǿǿ, Ø̈ø̈
- Grapheme.language
- Contested
- Grapheme.equivalents
- OE oe, Öö, O/ o/
- Grapheme.letter
- Ø ø
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.image
- Latin letter O with stroke.svg
- Grapheme.imageclass
- skin-invert-image
- Grapheme.fam1
- D4
- Grapheme.fam2
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-sinaitic ʿayin
- Grapheme.fam3
- class=skin-invert-image|20px
- Grapheme.fam4
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Phoenician Ayin
- Grapheme.fam5
- Ο ο
- Grapheme.fam6
- 𐌏
- Grapheme.fam7
- O o
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- Language usage
- Languages in Scandinavia
- Other languages
- Similar letters
- Similar symbols
- History
- Unicode
- See also
- Notes
- References
Ø (or minuscule: ø) is a letter used in the Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Southern Sámi languages. It is mostly used to represent the mid front rounded vowels, such as and , except for Southern Sámi where it is used as an diphthong.
The name of this letter is the same as the sound it represents (see usage). Among English-speaking typographers the symbol may be called a "slashed O" or "o with stroke". Although these names suggest it is a ligature or a diacritical variant of the letter , it is informally known as the "Runic O" or "Nordic O", it is considered a separate letter in Danish and Norwegian, and it is alphabetized after — thus , , , , , and .