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Ŭ or ŭ is a letter in the Belarusian language, when written in the 20th cent. form of the Belarusian Latin alphabet, and is also a letter in the Esperanto alphabet. The accent mark (diacritic) is known as a breve. This letter should not be confused with u-caron, which is used to indicate u in the third tone of Chinese language pinyin. Compare Ǔ ǔ (caron) with Ŭ ŭ (breve).
[edit] BelarusianThe letter ŭ is called non-syllabic u (romanised: u nyeskladovaye) in Belarusian, because while resembling vowel u it doesn't form syllables. It is an allophone of /v/ that forms the diphthongs aŭ, eŭ, oŭ and is equivalent to [u̯]. Its Cyrillic counterpart is ў.[1] See also: Belarusian alphabet, Belarusian Latin alphabet. [edit] Esperanto
Ŭ also represents a semivowel in Esperanto orthography, which was devised in the late 19th century. As in Belarusian, Esperanto Ŭ is pronounced as a non-syllabic close back vowel (IPA: [u̯]) in the diphthongs aŭ and eŭ. There is a hypothesis[citation needed] that the Esperanto letter was derived from Belarusian, which may be corroborated by the fact that the Cyrillic letter "Ў" (Cyrillic U with breve) was proposed by P.A. Bessonov in 1870[2]. It is of course also possible that Ŭ developed independently in both Esperanto and Belarusian. In some Esperanto literature (usually humorous), the letter replaces the English w in onomatopoeia, as "ŭomp!" for "womp!" [edit] Other usesIt is also a letter in some philological transcriptions of Latin, denoting a short U. The McCune-Reischauer Romanization of Korean uses "ŭ" to signify the close back unrounded vowel in 으. It is also used in ISO 15919 to transcribe the Malayalam language's samvṛtōkāram. [edit] See also
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