Turned v
Turned v (majuscule: Λ, minuscule: ʌ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, based on a turned form of V.
It is used in the orthographies of Ch'ol, Nankina, Northern Tepehuán, Temne 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 the Cyrillic Л.
Character encoding
| Character | ʌ | Ʌ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED V | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | 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 |
See also
Similar symbols:
Notes and references
- ↑ Urua 2004
Bibliography
- Urua, Eno-Abasi ; Moses Ekpenyong and Dafydd Gibbon. 2004. Uyo Ibibio Dictionary. Preprint draft. online copy
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