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Ŭ or ŭ is a letter in the Belarusian language, when written in the 20th century form of the Belarusian Latin alphabet, and is also a letter in the Esperanto alphabet. The accent mark (diacritic) is known as a breve.
This letter should not be confused with u-caron, which is used to indicate u in the third tone of Chinese language pinyin. Compare Ǔ ǔ (caron) with Ŭ ŭ (breve).
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[edit] Belarusian
The letter ŭ is called non-syllabic u (romanised: u nieskładovaje) in Belarusian because it resembles the vowel u but forms no syllables. It is an allophone of /v/ that forms the diphthongs aŭ, eŭ, oŭ and is equivalent to [u̯]. Its Cyrillic counterpart is ў.[1] Sometimes (as in National Geographic atlases), the Cyrillic letter ў is Romanized as "w".
See also: Belarusian alphabet, Belarusian Latin alphabet.
[edit] Esperanto
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Ŭ represents a semivowel in the orthography of Esperanto, which is an international auxiliary language created in the late 19th century. As in Belarusian, Esperanto Ŭ is pronounced as a non-syllabic [u̯], primarily in the diphthongs aŭ and eŭ.
It is thought that ŭ was created by analogy with the Belarusian letter ў (Cyrillic u with breve), which was proposed by P.A. Bessonov in 1870.[2][citation needed]
Ŭ may also be used for [w] in foreign names, such as Ŭaŝingtono for "Washington", although it usually is written with v (Vaŝintono). It is also used for [w] in onomatopoeias, as in ŭa! "waa!", and uniquely in one native lexical word, ŭo, which is the Esperanto name of the letter ŭ itself.
[edit] Other uses
It is also a letter in some philological transcriptions of Latin, denoting a short U. The McCune-Reischauer Romanization of Korean uses "ŭ" to signify the close back unrounded vowel in 으. It is also used in ISO 15919 to transcribe the Malayalam language's samvṛtōkāram.
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- Esperanto alphabet
- Short U (Ў, ў) used in Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet
- Breve
- Й
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| Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | ||
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Letter U with diacritics
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| Úú | Ùù | Ŭŭ | Ûû | Ǔǔ | Ůů | Üü | Ǘǘ | Ǜǜ | Ǚǚ | Ǖǖ | Űű | Ũũ | Ṹṹ | Ųų | Ūū | Ṻṻ | Ủủ | Ȕȕ | Ȗȗ | Ưư | Ứứ | Ừừ | Ữữ | Ửử | Ựự | |
| Ụụ | Ṳṳ | Ṷṷ | Ṵṵ | Ʉʉ | ᵾ | ᶙ | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Letters using breve sign ( ◌̆ )
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| Ăă | Ĕĕ | Ğğ | Ĭ ĭ | Ŏŏ | Ŭŭ | |||||||||||||||||||||
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