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How do you say the letter Ʋ?

What's the name of this letter? DBlomgren (talk) 09:48, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

V with hook or script V. It's shape is often mistaken with upsilon which lead to some orthographies using it as a vowel instead of the proper Latin upsilon Ʊ - but Ʋ is not upsilon.--Moyogo/ (talk) 13:02, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Choctaw use

This letter is also used as a vowel in Choctaw, in the original, traditional Byington orthography. --Haruo (talk) 23:57, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Latin alphabet?

The lede says this letter "is a letter of the Latin alphabet". Is that a correct statement? It's clearly related to letters in the Latin alphabet, but seems to be a distinct symbol. -- Srleffler (talk) 20:53, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

@Srleffler: Are thorn þ, eszett ß or even j and v not letters of the Latin alphabet? The letter ʋ is used in several language orthographies using the Latin alphabet (or, less ambiguously, Latin script), does that not make it a Latin letter like those others? Sure, the lowercase ʋ is a symbol of some phonetic transcription systems, but two things can be true at the same time. --Moyogo/ (talk) 10:46, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

I don't know; that's why I asked. I'm a layperson and I'm hoping we have someone who can give an expert or at least more-informed response to the question of what it means to say that something is "a letter of the Latin alphabet". I notice that þ, ß, and ʋ are not included in the article Latin alphabet, but that j, u, and w are. The articles for þ and ß do not claim that they are letters of the Latin alphabet. The Unicode names for all three of þ, ß, and ʋ include the word "Latin", though.--Srleffler (talk) 15:06, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

@Srleffler: If it needs to be clearer, the text could say "is a letter of the Latin script". --Moyogo/ (talk) 00:28, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks; that works. This is clearly part of the Latin-script alphabet, not the Latin alphabet.--Srleffler (talk) 20:00, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

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