Ol Chiki Letter Ov

Ol Chiki Letter Ov at U+1C76 is a vowel letter in the Ol Chiki script, used to write Santali and to represent the vowel conventionally romanized as ov. It belongs to the Ol Chiki block, which encodes the alphabet devised for Santali rather than a symbol set or decorative script. In real use, it appears in Santali words in schoolbooks, newspapers, signage, literature, community publications, and digital messages written in Ol Chiki. Santali speakers and language learners encounter it as part of ordinary spelling, alongside the other independent vowel and consonant letters of the script. The character is also important in linguistic work, dictionaries, keyboard layouts, and transliteration tables that connect Ol Chiki spelling with Latin, Devanagari, Bengali, Odia, or other scripts used for Santali. Its value is tied to Santali orthography, so it should be read as a normal alphabetic letter in that writing system, not as the Latin letters “o” and “v” combined.