Ou (letter)
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The letter Ou (Ȣ ȣ) is ligature of o and u in the Latin alphabet, based on a frequent Byzantine ligature of ο and υ with the same shape in the Greek alphabet.
The letter was invented by Christian missionaries, originally for writing the Wyandot language.[[Citing sources citation needed]] Today, Ou is used to represent the sounds of Algonquian languages.
Computer encoding
In Unicode it is in the Latin Extended-B range at code points U+0222 (uppercase) and U+0223 (lowercase). In older character encodings (such as ISO 8859) and locales where Unicode is not available, it is usually represented by an italic 8 glyph[[Citing sources citation needed]].See also
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