Vo (Armenian letter)

Vo
Ո ո
Usage
Writing system	Armenian script
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Armenian language
Sound values	[ɔ] [vɔ] (word-initially or in isolated form)
In Unicode	U+0548, U+0578
Alphabetical position	24 Numerical value: 600
History
Development	Ո ո
Time period	405 to present
Other
Associated numbers	600
Writing direction	Left-to-Right
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Vo (majuscule: Ո; minuscule: ո; Armenian: վո, վօ) is the twenty-fourth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It has a numerical value of 600.^[1] It was created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century AD. It represents the open-mid back rounded vowel (/ɔ/), but when it occurs isolated or word-initially, it represents /vɔ/¹. It is one of the two letters that represent the sound O, the other being Օ which was not created by Mashtots.

Its minuscule variant is homoglyphic to the minuscule form of the Latin letter N. In its uppercase form, it looks like a turned Latin letter U, the Lisu letter Ue (ꓵ), or the asomtavruli form of the Georgian letter ghani (Ⴖ).

This letter, along with Vyun (or Hiwn in Classical Armenian), is part of the Armenian U (ՈՒ Ու ու). Because the letter U is not present in Mashtots's alphabet, it uses a digraph made up of these letters.

• 
  Shghagir variant of Vo
• 
  Handwritten form
• 
  Eastern Armenian
• 
  Western Armenian

• O o : Latin letter O
• О о : Cyrillic letter O
• Օ օ : Armenian letter O
• ꓵ : Lisu letter Ue
• ՈՒ Ու ու : Armenian letter U
• Ⴖ : Georgian letter Ghani, in asomtavruli form

• Ո on Wiktionary
• ո on Wiktionary

1. ^ Except in ով /ov/ "who" and ովքեր /ovkʰer/ "those (people)" in Eastern Armenian