"Ɔ" redirects here. Not to be confused with Ↄ, ാ, or כ.
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Ɔ
Ɔ ɔ
Usage
Writing system
Latin script
Type
Alphabetic and Logographic
Unicode codepoint
U+0186, U+0254
History
Development
Ɔ ɔ
Other
Writing direction
Left-to-Right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.
Open o or turned c (majuscule: Ɔ, minuscule: ɔ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it represents the open-mid back rounded vowel. It is used in the orthographies of many African languages using the African reference alphabet.
The Yucatec Maya language used Ɔ to transcribe the alveolar ejective affricate [t͡sʼ] consonant in the orthography of the Colonial period. Now dz or tsʼ is preferred.
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