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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).

Contents 1 Belarusian 2 Esperanto 3 Other uses 4 See also 5 Notes

[edit] Belarusian

The letter ŭ is called non-syllabic u (romanised: u nieskładovaje) in Belarusian, because while resembling vowel u it doesn't form 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]

See also: Belarusian alphabet, Belarusian Latin alphabet.

[edit] Esperanto

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Ŭ also represents a semivowel in Esperanto orthography, which was devised in the late 19th century. As in Belarusian, Esperanto Ŭ is pronounced as a non-syllabic close back vowel (IPA: [u̯]) 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", though conservative usage replaces it with v (Vaŝintono). It is also used for [w] in onomatopoeia, as in ŭa! "waa!", and uniquely in one native lexical word, ŭo, the 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.

[edit] See also

• Esperanto alphabet
• Short U (Ў, ў) used in Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet
• Breve
• Й

[edit] Notes

The Basic modern Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
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