Vo (letter)


Vo is the twenty-fourth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It has a numerical value of 600. It was created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century AD. It represents the open-mid back rounded vowel, but when it occurs isolated or word-initially, it represents /vɔ/. 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, or the asomtavruli form of the Georgian letter ghani.

As a component in U

This letter, along with Vyun, is part of the Armenian U. Because the letter U is not present in Mashtots's alphabet, it uses a digraph made up of these letters.

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