Latin omega

<p>Latin omega, or simply omega, is an additional letter of the <a href="/facts/Latin_alphabet/pqWVHpBz">Latin alphabet</a>, based on the lowercase shape of the Greek letter <a href="/facts/Omega/4jTXmVye">omega</a> ⟨ω⟩. It was included as a Latin letter in the Mann and Dalby 1982 revision of the <a href="/facts/African_reference_alphabet/UeyaxhE4">African reference alphabet</a> and has been used as such in some publications in the <a href="/facts/Kulango_languages/52Xsw691">Kulango languages</a> in <a href="/facts/C%25C3%25B4te_d%2527Ivoire/mSSED5Yl">Côte d'Ivoire</a> in the 1990s. In other Kulango publications the letters <a href="/facts/%25C6%25B2/Yr5jkehB">V with hook</a> ⟨Ʋ⟩ or <a href="/facts/%25C6%25B1/82YCoGWK">Latin upsilon</a> ⟨Ʊ⟩ are found instead.
The Italian humanist <a href="/facts/Giovan_Gi%25CF%2589rgio_Trissino/VglfEwQW">Giovan Giωrgio Trissino</a> proposed in 1524 a reform of <a href="/facts/Italian_orthography/QP2BJ6J7">Italian orthography</a> that included lowercase and uppercase omega for the open ⟨o⟩ sound .
He later re-assigned it to the closed ⟨o⟩ ([o]).
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Latin omega open-in-new

Latin omega