Short U (Cyrillic)

<p>Short U (Ў ў; italics: <i>Ў ў</i>) or U with breve is a letter of the <a href="/facts/Cyrillic_script/0btN3oWC">Cyrillic script</a>. The only <a href="/facts/Slavic_language/b5GaeFx1">Slavic language</a> using the letter in its orthography is <a href="/facts/Belarusian_alphabet/Egq4EKJb">Belarusian</a>, but it is also used as a phonetic symbol in some Russian and Ukrainian dictionaries. Among the non-Slavic languages using Cyrillic alphabets, ў is used in <a href="/facts/Dungan_language/vS7Ra8xE">Dungan</a>, <a href="/facts/Karakalpak_language/CB00ucC6">Karakalpak</a>, <a href="/facts/Karachay-Balkar/scITlanH">Karachay-Balkar</a>, <a href="/facts/Mansi_language/XnU9TV93">Mansi</a>, <a href="/facts/Nivkh_languages/ME905Q8W">Sakhalin Nivkh</a>, <a href="/facts/Ossetian_language/a4MHjCtL">Ossetian</a> and <a href="/facts/Central_Siberian_Yupik_language/t6mFmQFT">Siberian Yupik</a>. It is also used in <a href="/facts/Uzbek_language/ovLJMy4J">Uzbek</a> – this letter corresponds to <a href="/facts/O%25CA%25BB/9nbpVK98">Oʻ</a> in the Uzbek Latin alphabet.
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Short U (Cyrillic)