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Ou (Majuscule: Ȣ, Minuscule: ȣ) is a ligature of the Greek letters ο and υ which was frequently used in Byzantine manuscripts.

The ligature is now also used in the context of the Latin alphabet, interpreted as a ligature of Latin o and u, for example in the orthography of the Wyandot language,^{[citation needed]} and of Algonquian languages of Western Abenaki to represent /ɔ̃/ and in Algonquin to represent /ɯ/. Today, in Western Abenaki, "ô" is preferred, and in Algonquin, "w" is preferred.

The same ligature was also used in the context of the Cyrillic alphabet, see Uk (Cyrillic).

This 1871 Algonquin calendar has "ȣabikoni kisis" for what is today written wàbigonì-gìzis ("May").

[edit] Computer encoding

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^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] References

• Unicode Character 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OU'