Turned v

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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 &#652; &#x28C; &#581; &#x245;

See also

Similar symbols:

Notes and references

  1. Urua 2004

Bibliography

  • Urua, Eno-Abasi ; Moses Ekpenyong and Dafydd Gibbon. 2004. Uyo Ibibio Dictionary. Preprint draft. online copy


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