Ue (Cyrillic)
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Ue or Straight U (Ү ү; italics: Ү ү) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.[1] It is a form of the Cyrillic letter U (У у У у) with a vertical, rather than diagonal, center line. Whereas a standard Cyrillic U resembles a lowercase Latin y, Ue instead uses the shape of a capital Latin Y, with each letter set higher or lower to establish its case. The lower case resembles the lower case of the Greek letter gamma.
Ue is in used the alphabets of the Tuvan, Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Sakha, Turkmen, Tatar, Azerbajiani and other languages. It commonly represents the front rounded vowels Script error: No such module "IPA". and Script error: No such module "IPA". in most Turkic languages, except in Mongolian where it represents Script error: No such module "IPA"..
In Tuvan and Kyrgyz the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel.[2][3]
Computing codes
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See also
- Ü ü : Latin letter U with diaeresis, used in the Azerbaijani, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Turkish, and Turkmen languages.
- Ư ư : Latin letter U with horn, used in Vietnamese alphabet
- Y y : Latin letter Y
- У у : Cyrillic letter U
- Ӱ ӱ : Cyrillic letter U with diaeresis
- Ӳ ӳ : Cyrillic letter U with double acute
- Ұ ұ : Cyrillic letter straight U with stroke (Kazakh mid U)
- Γ γ : Greek letter Gamma
- Cyrillic characters in Unicode
References
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 42. Retrieved 2011-05-16.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tuvan language, alphabet and pronunciation". omniglot.com. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Campbell, George L.; King, Gareth (24 July 2013). Compendium of the World's Languages. Routledge. ISBN 9781136258459. Retrieved 14 June 2016 – via Google Books.
