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Barred O (majuscule: Ɵ, minuscule: ɵ) was a letter used in Janalif and other alphabets. formed the Uniform Turkic Alphabet, for example, Azerbaijani alphabet in 1929, when the languages shifted from Arabic script into Latin script. It represented the open-mid front rounded vowel [œ].

In many alphabets it was replaced by the Cyrillic letter Ө ө in 1939 and was again replaced by the Latin letter Ö ö in 1991 in Azerbaijani.

This letter is also used in African reference alphabet.

The minuscule form [ɵ] is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the close-mid central rounded vowel.

It has no relation to the slashed zero, letter Ø ø or Greek letter Θ θ, despite their similar shapes.

Unicode

In Unicode, the majuscule Ɵ is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block at U+019F and the minuscule ɵ is encoded in the IPA block at U+0275.

See also

• Azerbaijani alphabet
• Latin letter Ö ö
• Cyrillic letter Ө ө
• Kɵpejek - a coin in Tuva

External links

• Azerbaijani language, alphabets and pronunciation by omniglot.com