Oni (letter)

Oni, or On (Asomtavruli: ; Nuskhuri: ; Mkhedruli; ო or ʟ; Mtavruli: Ო; ) is the 16th letter of the three Georgian scripts. The letter Oni can also be spelled like the Latin letter L, however this version of writing Oni has fallen out of favour.

In the system of Georgian numerals, it has a value of 70. Oni commonly represents the mid back rounded vowel , like between the pronunciation of in "story" and the pronunciation of in "yawn" (Received Pronunciation). It is typically romanized with the letter O.

An additional mkhedruli oni letters, ო̈ with an umlaut, ო̄ with a macron and ო̄̈ with both umlaut and macron are used in Svan language.

Letter

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Braille

See also

• Latin letter O
• Cyrillic letter O
• Greek letter Omega (ω)

References

Bibliography

• Mchedlidze, T. (1) The restored Georgian alphabet, Fulda, Germany, 2013
• Mchedlidze, T. (2) The Georgian script; Dictionary and guide, Fulda, Germany, 2013
• Machavariani, E. Georgian manuscripts, Tbilisi, 2011
• The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (1) Georgian, 1991-2013
• The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (2) Georgian Supplement, 1991-2013