Closed U

Closed U
Closed U
Usage
Type	alphabetic
Language of origin	Unifon; Quechua (formerly); Swedish Dialect Alphabet;
Sound values	/u/
History
Development	Υυ V ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Time period	1878, 1960–present
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Closed U ⟨⟩ is a letter of the Latin script. It has a form of the letter U closed above with a horizontal bar.

Usage

Gavino Pacheco Zegarra used a closed U in his phonetic alphabet for writing the Quechua family of languages in the French translation of Ollantay published in 1878.^[1] It is also used in the Landsmålsalfabetet.^[2]

The Unifon alphabet uses a capital form of closed U.^[3]

This letter has not yet been encoded in Unicode, but U+2A4C ⩌ CLOSED UNION WITH SERIFS resembles a closed U.

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