Latin omega

The Latin Omega is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from the lowercase form of the Greek Omega ⟨ω⟩.

Such a letter was already in 1795 by Constantin François Volney for a transliteration of the Arabic / proposed in an extended Latin alphabet to represent the phoneme / u ː to emphasize that it (as opposed to " ou " of his French mother tongue ) is an indivisible unit. Henry Frieland Buckner used it in 1860 in a Verschriftung the Muskogean ( a Muskogee language). Harry Johnston used it in 1919 in a Verschriftung of Bantu languages. All these uses have not been successful.

Ultimately, it was introduced in the revision of 1982 in the African reference alphabet. Since then it has been used in a number of publications in the language Kulango in the Ivory Coast in the 1990s. Other publications on Kulango to find instead the letters Ʋ ( "V with hook " ) or the Latin Ypsilon ⟨ ⟩ ʊ.

Currently ( September 2013, Unicode 6.3) neither the large nor the small letter in Unicode is included. An application for admission is available, however.