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{{short description|Latin letter O with loop}}
[[File:Latin letter O with loop.svg|thumb|Uppercase and lowercase '''Ꝍ''']]
'''Ꝍ''' ([[Letter case|minuscule]]: '''ꝍ''') is a letter used in a number of Medieval Nordic [[Orthography|orthographies]] including [[Old Norse]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=1848|title=almenniligr in GulKrNA 309 (ONP Citation)|url=https://onp.ku.dk/onp/onp.php?c15549|access-date=2020-08-21|website=onp.ku.dk/}}</ref> [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hødnebø|first=Finn|title=Corpus codicum Norvegicorum medii aevi. Folio series volume 2|publisher=Society for the Publication of Old Norwegian Manuscripts|year=1960|location=Oslo}}</ref> and [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Konráð|first=Gílasson|date=1846|title=Um frum-parta íslenzkrar túngu í fornöld - Konráð Gílasson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RIY_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR25|access-date=2020-08-21}}</ref> The letter was used as a [[scribal abbreviation]] during the [[Middle Ages]] to represent the phonemic /ǫ/, /ø:/, and /ey/.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Everson|first=Michael|display-authors=etal|date=2006-01-30|title=Proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06027-n3027-medieval.pdf#page=3|access-date=2020-08-22|publisher=The Unicode Consortium}}</ref>
== Computing codes ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
| align="right" |'''Character'''
| align="center" |'''Ꝍ'''
| align="center" |'''ꝍ'''
|- align="center"
| align="right" |'''Unicode name'''
|<small>LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH LOOP</small>
|<small>LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH LOOP</small>
|- align="center"
| align="left" |[[Unicode]]
|A74C
|A74D
|- align="center"
| align="left" |Decimal Code
|&amp;#42828;
|&amp;#42829;
|- align="center"
| align="left" |Hex Code
|&amp;#xa74d;
|&amp;#xa74c;
|}
== References ==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:O}}{{Latin script|O
| show diacritic = hook
| show pairs = no
}}
[[Category:Typography]]
[[Category:Early medieval literature]]
[[Category:Latin letters with diacritics]]