O (Armenian letter) explained

O
Letter:Օ օ
Imagesize2:195px
Imagealt2:Letter O handwritten
Script:Armenian script
Type:Alphabet
Typedesc:ic
Language:Armenian language
Phonemes:[o]
Unicode:U+0555, U+0585
Alphanumber:38

O or Oh (majuscule: Օ, minuscule: օ, hy|օ) is the 38th letter of the reformed Armenian alphabet and the 37th letter of the classical Armenian alphabet. This letter was first noticed in a text from the year 1046 at the work փափագանօք (p'ap'aganok').[1]

Unlike many Armenian letters, O has no numeric value.[2]

It represents the /o/ sound in both Eastern and Western Armenian.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: ru. С. Гюлбудагян.. Орфография. Армянская советская энциклопедия. Yerevan. 1986. 12. 242.
  2. ru. Э. Г. Туманян.. Армянское письмо. Лингвистический энциклопедический словарь. Moscow. Советская энциклопедия. 1990. 2021-12-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20211231133716/http://tapemark.narod.ru/les/045a.html.
  3. Book: Jasmine Dum-Tragut. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. Amsterdam/Philadelphia. John Benjamins Publishing. 2009. 13. London Oriental and African language library, 14. 978-90-272-8879-0.