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The letter Ou ( Ȣ ȣ) is a letter in the extended Latin alphabet. graphic of letter Ou, found on [1] This work is copyrighted. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world. ...

The letter was invented by Christian missionaries, originally for writing the Wendat language. It was based on a non-standard ligature from the Greek alphabet for ου. In Cyrillic this ligature spawned a shorter form of the letter Uk, which was previously written as a ligature of О and У ( Ѹ, ѹ). Wyandot is the Iroquoian language traditionally spoken by the people known variously as Wyandot, Wendat, or Huron. ... The origin of the term delta comes from a vicious attacking toad, last sighted near IIT Bombay. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... O (О, о) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the vowel /o/. Categories: Cyrillic letters | Substubs ... U (У, у) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the vowel /u/. Categories: Cyrillic letters | Substubs ...

Today, Ou is used for writing the Algonquin language. For the larger language family of which Algonquin is but one member, see Algonquian. ...

In Unicode it is in the Latin Extended-B range at code points U+0222 (uppercase) and U+0223 (lowercase). In older character encodings (such as ISO 8859) and locales where Unicode is not available, it is usually represented by an italic 8 glyph. In computing, Unicode is the international standard whose goal is to provide the means to encode the text of every document people want to store in computers. ... A character encoding is a code that pairs a set of natural language characters (such as an alphabet or syllabary) with a set of something else, such as numbers or electrical pulses. ... ISO 8859, more formally ISO/IEC 8859, is a joint ISO and IEC standard for 8-bit character encodings for use by computers. ... Bold Bold, see Bold (disambiguation). ...

In most languages, however, ou is spelled out and the ligature is not used. In the Latin alphabet, the most notable user of "ou" is French; this is also done in former French colonies in West Africa. "Ou" is also found two other alphabets to represent the /u:/ sound; in Greek (written "ου") and Armenian (as "ու"). The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world. ...

Latin alphabet:

Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Qq | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz

Modified characters:

Àà | Áá | Ââ | Ää | Åå | Āā | Ąą | Çç | Ĉĉ | Čč | Ćć | Đđ | Ęę | Ëë | Ĝĝ | Ğğ | Ĥĥ | Įį | Ïï | İı | Ĵĵ | Łł | Ññ | Õõ | Öö | Őő | Øø | Ǫǫ | Şş | Șș | Šš | Ŝŝ | Țț | Ŭŭ | Üü | Ųų | Ůů | Űű | Žž The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world. ... The letter A is the first (1st) letter in the Latin alphabet. ... The letter B is the second letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... C is the third letter of the Roman alphabet. ... The letter D is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... The letter E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. ... The letter F is the sixth (6th) letter in the Latin alphabet. ... G is the seventh letter in the Roman alphabet. ... H is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... I is the 9th letter in the Latin alphabet. ... The letter J is the tenth of the Latin alphabet; it was the last to be added to that alphabet. ... The eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet, K comes from the Greek Κ or κ (Kappa) developed from the Semitic Kap, symbol for an open hand. ... L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... M is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... N is the fourteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... O is the fifteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... P is the 16th letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Q is the 17th letter of the Latin alphabett. ... R is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... S is the nineteenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. ... T is the twentieth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... U is the twenty-first letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. ... W is the twenty-third letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... X is the twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Y is the twenty-fifth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet. ... A diacritical mark or accent mark is an additional mark added to a basic letter. ... The grave accent ( ` ) is a diacritic mark used in written Greek until 1982 ( polytonic orthography), French, Catalan, Welsh, Italian, Vietnamese, Scottish Gaelic, Norwegian, Portuguese, and other languages. ... The acute accent (´) is a diacritic mark used in written French, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Greek, Welsh, Hungarian, Faroese, Icelandic, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Vietnamese, Dutch, Irish Gaelic, Croatian, Navajo and other languages. ... The circumflex ( ˆ ) is a diacritic mark used in written Greek, French, Esperanto, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Vietnamese, Japanese romaji, Welsh, Portuguese, Italian, and other languages. ... Ä - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Å, or å, is a letter, representing a vowel, in the Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Walloon and Chamorro alphabets. ... A-macron (Ā or ā) is a letter, representing a vowel, in the Latvian alphabet. ... Ogonek (Polish for little tail) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in Polish, Lithuanian, Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua and Tutchone. ... A cedilla is a hook (¸) added under certain consonant letters as a diacritic mark to modify their pronunciation. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... HACEK organisms are a subgroup of bacteria. ... Ð, Unicode codepoint 208, U+00D0 is: Ð, a letter used in Old English and present_day Icelandic and Faroese. ... Ogonek (Polish for little tail; In Lithuanian it is nosinė which litterally means handkerchief) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in Polish, Lithuanian, Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua and Tutchone. ... In linguistics, a diaeresis or dieresis (AE) (from Greek diairein, to divide) is either the modification of a syllable by distinctly pronouncing one of its vowels. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Ogonek (Polish for little tail; In Lithuanian it is nosinė which litterally means handkerchief) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in Polish, Lithuanian, Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua and Tutchone. ... In linguistics, a diaeresis or dieresis (AE) (from Greek diairein, to divide) is the modification of a syllable by distinctly pronouncing one of its vowels. ... The Dotless I is a letter from the Turkish variant of the Latin alphabet, used to write the Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Tatar languages. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... . Ł or ł, described in English as L with stroke, is a letter of the Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian, and Łacinka (Latin Belarusian) alphabets. ... Ñ or enye, (Spanish eñe) represents an n sound followed by a y. ... Õ, or õ, is a vowel and a letter in the Estonian alphabet, representing []. Õ also occurs in the Portuguese language, where it stands for an accented nasalized [o]. It is not an actual letter of the alphabet, but a composition of the letter O and the diacritic mark tilde. ... Ö, or ö, is a glyph which represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, the letter O with umlaut, or a letter O with diaeresis. ... Double acute accent is a diacritic mark used in written Hungarian. ... Ø, ø is a vowel and a letter used in the Danish, Faroese and Norwegian alphabets. ... Ogonek (Polish for little tail; In Lithuanian it is nosinė which litterally means handkerchief) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in Polish, Lithuanian, Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua and Tutchone. ... Ş ş (S-cedilla) is a letter used in Turkish, Azeri, Tatar, Kurdish and Turkmenian languages. ... A cedilla is a hook (¸) added under certain consonant letters as a diacritic mark to modify their pronunciation. ... HACEK organisms are a subgroup of bacteria. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... A cedilla is a hook (¸) added under certain consonant letters as a diacritic mark to modify their pronunciation. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Ü, or ü, is a glyph which represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, the letter U with umlaut, or a letter U with diaeresis. ... Ogonek (Polish for little tail; In Lithuanian it is nosinė which litterally means handkerchief) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in Polish, Lithuanian, Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua and Tutchone. ... In punctuation, the term ring is usually reserved for the ring above diacritic mark ˚ (looks similar to °). The ring may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets. ... Double acute accent is a diacritic mark used in written Hungarian. ... HACEK organisms are a subgroup of bacteria. ...

Alphabet extensions:

Ææ | Ðð | Ǳǳ | Ǆǆ | Əə | Ȝȝ | Ƕƕ | ĸ | Ǉǉ | LLll | Ǌǌ | Ŋŋ | Œœ | Ȣȣ |  | ſ | ß | Þþ | Ƿƿ | Ĳĳ

Categories: Language stubs | Uncommon Latin letters Æ, or æ, is a vowel and a grapheme used in the Icelandic, Danish, Faroese, Norwegian and Ossetian alphabets. ... Ð (capital Ð, lower-case ð) (or eth, eð or edh, Faroese: edd) is a letter used in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and present-day Icelandic and Faroese. ... DŽ (miniscule dž, titlecase Dž) is the seventh letter of the Croatian alphabet, after D and before Đ. It is pronounced as . ... In linguistics and phonology, schwa is the tonally-neutral, mid-central unrounded vowel sound, exactly in the middle of the vowel chart. ... Yogh (Ȝ ȝ) is a letter used in Middle English and Middle Scots, representing y (IPA /j/) and various velar phonemes. ... Hwair (lowercase , uppercase ) is a letter from various medieval Latin alphabets, which is currently still used in the transcription of the Gothic alphabet. ... Kra (ĸ) is a character used when writing the Kalaallisut language spoken in Greenland. ... LL may stand for: Late Latin Linked list, a type of data structure Little league Long lines, a term for a long-distance telephone network Limited liability LL parser The rapper LL Cool J See also ll for the use of this double-consonant in various languages This is a... This article is about the Latin letter. ... Œ œ This page is about the ligature, not the simple combination of the letters O and E. For initialisms and the word Oe, see Oe. ... Between the middle ages and today, many ways of writing alphabetical characters were lost. ... The long or medial s (ſ) is a form of the minuscule letter s that was formerly used when the s occurred within or at the beginning of the word, for example ſinfulneſs (sinfulness). The modern letterform was called the terminal or short s. ... The ß — Eszett (IPA ) in German or scharfes S (sharp S) if spelled out — is a letter used only in the German alphabet. ... Þ þ Þ (capital Þ, lower-case þ) or Thorn or Þorn is a letter in the Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic alphabets. ... Categories: Language stubs | Old English language | Runes | Uncommon Latin letters ... Ĳ (IJ) is a letter from the Dutch alphabet used to represent the diphthong or . ...