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Also known as Omega

letter used in the early Cyrillic alphabet

Key facts

Writing system
Cyrillic
Type
Alphabetic
Sound values
/ɔ/
Development
Ω ω Ѡ ѡ
Associated numbers
800 ( Cyrillic numerals )

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Encyclopedic overview

Omega (Ѡ ѡ; italics: Ѡ ѡ) is a letter used in the early Cyrillic alphabet. Its name and capital form are derived directly from the Greek letter Omega ⟨Ω ω⟩.

In some forms it looks similar to the letter We.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ѡ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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