Ou (letter)

The letter Ou (Ȣ ȣ) is a letter in the extended Latin alphabet.

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).

Today, Ou is used for writing the Algonquin language.

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 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 /uː/ sound; in Greek (written "ου") — although the exact sounds of ancient Greek are debatable — and Armenian (as "ու").

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 \| Ãã \| Āā \| Ąą \| Ăă \| Çç \| Ĉĉ \| Čč \| Ćć \| Ðđ \| Ďď \| Èè \| Éé \| Êê \| Ëë \| Ęę \| Ēē \| Ĕĕ \| Ėė \| Ěě \| Ƒƒ \| Ĝĝ \| Ğğ \| Ġġ \| Ģģ \| Ǧǧ \| Ĥĥ \| Ħħ \| Ìì \| Íí \| Îî \| Ïï \| Įį \| İı \| Ĩĩ \| Īī \| Ĭĭ \| Ĵĵ \| Ķķ \| Ǩǩ \| Ĺĺ \| Ļļ \| Ľľ \| Ŀŀ \| Łł \| Ññ \| Ńń \| Ņņ \| Ňň \| Òò \| Óó \| Ôô \| Öö \| Õõ \| Őő \| Ǫǫ \| Ōō \| Ŏŏ \| Ơơ \| Ŕŕ \| Ŗŗ \| Řř \| Śś \| Ŝŝ \| Şş \| Șș \| Šš \| Ťť \| Ŧŧ \| Ţţ \| Țț \| Ùù \| Úú \| Ûû \| Üü \| Ũũ \| Ūū \| Ŭŭ \| Ųų \| Ůů \| Űű \| Ưư \| Ŵŵ \| Ýý \| Ŷŷ \| Ÿÿ \| Źź \| Žž \| Żż
Alphabet extensions	Ǎǎ \| Ȁȁ \| Ȃȃ \| Ææ \| Ǽǽ \| Ǣǣ \| Åå \| Ċċ \| Ðð \| Ǳǳ \| Ǆǆ \| Ɛɛ \| Ʒʒ \| Ǯǯ \| Ȅȅ \| Ȇȇ \| Əə \| Ȝȝ \| Ǥǥ \| Ǧǧ \| Ƣƣ \| Ƕƕ \| Ĳĳ \| Ǐǐ \| Ȉȉ \| Ȋȋ \| Ǩǩ \| ĸ \| Ǉǉ \| LLll \| ĿLŀl \| Ǌǌ \| Ŋŋ \| Œœ \| Øø \| Ǿǿ \| Ǒǒ \| Ȍȍ \| Ȏȏ \| Ɔɔ \| Ȣȣ \|  \| Ȑȑ \| Ȓȓ \| ſ \| ß \| Ʃʃ \| Þþ \| Ǔǔ \| Ȕȕ \| Ȗȗ \| Ƿƿ \| Ƶƶ
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