Talk:Uk (Cyrillic)

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Is the origin given for this letter correct? I didn't think "у" existed in the early Cyrillic alphabet. It is much more likely to be a ligature of onu-izhitsa, no? Izhitsa was adapted from the Greek upsilon and the ligature appears to have the same value as omicron-upsilon does in Greek. I think it much more likely that "у" derived from the vertical ligature of this letter.

Also it's not true that Uk no longer appears in any Cyrillic alphabet; the vertical ligature is common in Church Slavonic. TCC (talk) (contribs) 23:26, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Ѹ could not be a ligature of О and У. У was implemented about 1710 as a simplified form of the vertical ligature. So, Ѹ is not О+У, but О+Ѵ (On+Izhitsa). However, used in this ligature ancient form of Ѵ(Izhitsa) is similar to modern У (they have some graphical difference, but in computer fonts Ѹ usually looks like Оу).--193.151.252.224 12:15, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Could this letter be related to the Latin gamma? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.64.6.222 (talk) 11:54, 21 December 2007 (UTC)