Vo (letter)

Vo (majuscule: Ո; minuscule: ո; Armenian: վո, վօ) is the twenty-fourth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It has a numerical value of 600.^[1] It was created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century AD. It represents the open-mid back rounded vowel (/ɔ/), but when it occurs isolated or word-initially, it represents /vɔ/¹. It is one of the two letters that represent the sound O, the other being Օ which was not created by Mashtots.

Its minuscule variant is homoglyphic to the minuscule form of the Latin letterN. In its uppercase form, it looks like a turned Latin letterU, the Lisu letter Ue (ꓵ), or the asomtavruli form of the Georgian letterghani (Ⴖ).

This letter, along with Vyun (or Hiwn in Classical Armenian), is part of the Armenian U (ՈՒ Ու ու). Because the letter U is not present in Mashtots's alphabet, it uses a digraph made up of these letters.

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  Rounded Erkat'agir
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  Angular Erkat'agir
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  Bolorgir
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  Notrgir
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  Shghagir
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  Typographic form
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  Handwritten form
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  Eastern Armenian
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  Western Armenian

• O o : Latin letter O
• О о : Cyrillic letter O
• Օ օ : Armenian letter O
• ꓵ : Lisu letter Ue
• ՈՒ Ու ու : Armenian letter U
• Ⴖ : Georgian letter Ghani, in asomtavruli form

• Armenian alphabet
• Mesrop Mashtots

1. ^Except in ով /ov/ "who" and ովքեր /ovkʰer/ "those (people)" in Eastern Armenian

• Ո on Wiktionary
• ո on Wiktionary