| Ʌ | |
|---|---|
| Ʌ ʌ | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Latin script |
| Type | Alphabetic and Logographic |
| Sound values |
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| In Unicode | U+0245, U+028C |
| Other | |
| Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
Ʌ (minuscule: ʌ), known as turned V, is a Latin-script letter. It is based on a turned form of the letter V.
It is used in the orthographies of Dan, Ch’ol, Nankina, Northern Tepehuán, Temne, Oneida, and Wounaan and also some orthographies of Ibibio.1
Its lowercase is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent an open-mid back unrounded vowel, the vowel in plus in many dialects of English.
Despite the similarity in appearance, the letter has no connection to the Greek Λ or Cyrillic Л.
Character encoding
| Preview | ʌ | Ʌ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED V | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 652 | U+028C | 581 | U+0245 |
| UTF-8 | 202 140 | CA 8C | 201 133 | C9 85 |
| Numeric character reference | ʌ |
ʌ |
Ʌ |
Ʌ |
Related characters
Descendants and related letters in the Latin alphabet
- ʌ with diacritics: ʌ́ ʌ̀
- ᶺ : Modifier letter small turned v is used in phonetic transcription2
References
References
- Urua 2004
- Constable, Peter (2004-04-19). "L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS" (PDF).
Bibliography
Bibliography
- Urua, Eno-Abasi; Moses Ekpenyong and Dafydd Gibbon. 2004. Uyo Ibibio Dictionary. Preprint draft. online copy