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[[File:Latin_letter_O_with_grave.svg|thumb|Latin letter O with grave]]
'''Ò''', '''ò''' ([[o]]-[[Grave accent|grave]]) is a letter of the [[Latin script]].

It is used in [[Catalan language|Catalan]], [[Emilian dialects|Emilian]], [[Lombard language|Lombard]], [[Papiamento]], [[Occitan language|Occitan]], [[Kashubian language|Kashubian]], [[Romagnol]], [[Sardinian language|Sardinian]], [[Scottish Gaelic]], [[Taos language|Taos]], [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]], [[Haitian Creole]], [[Louisiana Creole]], [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]], [[Welsh language|Welsh]] and [[Italian language|Italian]].

==Usage in various languages==

===Chinese===
In Chinese [[pinyin]], ò is the ''yángqù'' tone (阳去, falling tone) of "o".

===Emilian===
Ò is used to represent {{IPA|egl|ɔː}}, e.g. ''òs'' {{IPA|egl|ɔːs}} "bone".

===Italian===
In Italian, the grave accent is used over any vowel to indicate word-final stress: ''Niccolò'' (equivalent of Nicholas and the forename of [[Machiavelli]]).

It can also be used on the nonfinal vowels ''o'' and ''e'' to indicate that the vowel is stressed and that it is [[open vowel|open]]: ''còrso'', "Corsican", vs. ''córso'', "course"/"run", the past participle of "correre". ''Ò'' represents the [[open-mid back rounded vowel]] /ɔ/ and ''È'' represents the [[open-mid front unrounded vowel]] /ɛ/.

===Kashubian===
Ò is the 28th letter of the [[Kashubian alphabet]] and represents {{IPA|/wɛ/}}, like the pronunciation of {{angbr|we}} in "'''we'''t".

===Lombard===
It is used to represent vocalic phonemes /ɔ/ and /ɔː/ in every tonic occurrence to distinguish them from /o/ and /oː/ represented by ''O'', e.g. ''fiòrd'' /ˈfjɔːrd/ (fjord) and ''sord'' /ˈsuːrd/ (deaf); ''còta'' /ˈkɔta/ (cooked) and ''sota'' /ˈsota/ (under/below).

=== Louisiana Creole ===
It is used to represent /ɔ/ by many (but not all) speakers to distinguish it from /o/, represented by ''o''.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Dictionary of Louisiana Creole |date=1998 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-33451-0 |editor-last=Valdman |editor-first=Albert |location=Bloomington |editor-last2=Klingler |editor-first2=Thomas A.}}</ref>

===Macedonian===
In [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]], о̀&#x300; is used to differentiate the word ''о̀&#x300;д'' ({{langx|en| walk}}) from the more common ''од'' ({{langx|en|from}}). Both о̀&#x300; and о are pronounced as {{IPA|mk|o|}}.

===Norwegian===
Ò can be found in the [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] word ''òg'' which is an alternative spelling of ''også, ''meaning "also". This word is found in both [[Nynorsk]] and [[Bokmål]].

===Romagnol===
Ò is used to represent {{IPA|rgn|ɔ}}, e.g. ''piò'' {{IPA|rgn|pjɔ}} "more".

===Vietnamese===
In the [[Vietnamese alphabet]], ò is the ''huyền'' tone (falling tone) of "o".

===Welsh===
In [[Welsh language|Welsh]], ò is sometimes used, usually in words borrowed from another language, to mark vowels that are short when a long vowel would normally be expected, e.g., ''clòs'' ({{langx|en|close [of the weather]}}).

==Character mappings==
* {{unichar |00D2 }}
* {{unichar |00F2 }}

== References ==
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{{Latin script}}

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[[Category:Latin letters with diacritics|O-grave]]
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