Omega (Cyrillic)
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| Cyrillic letter Omega | ||||||
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| Cyrillic numerals: 800 | ||||||
| Unicode (hex) | ||||||
| majuscule: U+0460 | ||||||
| minuscule: U+0461 | ||||||
| Cyrillic alphabet | ||||||
| А | Б | В | Г | Ґ | Д | Ѓ |
| Ђ | Е | Ѐ | Ё | Є | Ж | З |
| Ѕ | И | Ѝ | І | Ї | Й | Ј |
| К | Л | Љ | М | Н | Њ | О |
| П | Р | С | Т | Ћ | Ќ | У |
| Ў | Ф | Х | Ц | Ч | Џ | Ш |
| Щ | Ъ | Ы | Ь | Э | Ю | Я |
| Non-Slavic letters | ||||||
| Ӑ | Ӓ | Ә | Ӛ | Ӕ | Ғ | Ӷ |
| Ҕ | Ӗ | Ҽ | Ҿ | Ӂ | Җ | Ӝ |
| Ҙ | Ӟ | Ӡ | Ӥ | Ӣ | Ӏ | Ҋ |
| Қ | Ҟ | Ҡ | Ӄ | Ҝ | Ӆ | Ӎ |
| Ҥ | Ң | Ӊ | Ӈ | Ӧ | Ө | Ӫ |
| Ҩ | Ҧ | Ҏ | Ҫ | Ҭ | Ӳ | Ӱ |
| Ӯ | Ү | Ұ | Ҳ | Һ | Ҵ | Ӵ |
| Ҷ | Ӌ | Ҹ | Ӹ | Ҍ | Ӭ | |
| Archaic letters | ||||||
| Ҁ | Ѹ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ѻ | Ѣ | ІА |
| Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ | Ѱ |
| Ѳ | Ѵ | Ѷ | Ꙟ | |||
| List of Cyrillic letters | ||||||
Omega (Ѡ ѡ) is a letter used in the early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek omega (Ω, ω).
Unlike Greek, the Slavic languages had only a single /o/ sound, so omega was little used compared to the ordinary letter on (О о, descended from Greek omicron). In the older ustav writing Omega was used mainly for its numeric value (800), and rarely appeared even in Greek words. In later semi-ustav manuscripts it was used for decorative reasons, along with a broad version ( ), as well as a broad on (Ѻ ѻ).
Modern Church Slavonic has developed strict rules for the use of these letterforms.
Another variation of o is the ornate or beautiful omega, used as an interjection ("O!"). It is represented in Unicode 5.1 by the misnamed character omega with titlo (Ѽ ѽ).
[edit] References
- A Berdnikov and O Lapko, "Old Slavonic and Church Slavonic in TEX and Unicode", EuroTEX ’99 Proceedings, September 1999 (PDF)
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