Turned L

Turned L ( ) is an additional letter which was used in medieval Welsh and in certain phonetic transcriptions used in German dialectology. Its capital form is also homoglyphic with the letter reversed ge.

Turned L
Ꞁ ꞁ
Usage
Writing systemLatin script
Typealphabetic
Language of originCornish language
Phonetic usage[ɬ]
History
Development
Time period1790, 1922
Other

Usage

Turned L is used by William Pryce in his Cornish grammar Archæologia Cornu-Britannica published in 1790. It represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative /ɬ/ used in Welsh. In this work, Pryce also used the additional letters turned A Ɐ ɐ, Chi Χ χ, Insular D Ꝺ ꝺ, Insular G Ᵹ ᵹ, turned Insular G Ꝿ ꝿ, and Insular T Ꞇ ꞇ.

In German dialectology, in 1922, Walter Steinhauser uses turned l to represent middle Bavarian l (donaubairische l), a palatal consonant.[1][2]

Forms and variants

Computing codes

Turned L can be represented with the following Unicode characters (Latin Extended-D):

Character information
Preview
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED L LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED L
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode42880U+A78042881U+A781
UTF-8234 158 128EA 9E 80234 158 129EA 9E 81
Numeric character referenceꞀꞀꞁꞁ

See also

Notes and references

  1. Steinhauser 1922, p. 12.
  2. Heepe 1928, p. 38.

Bibliography

  • Everson, Michael (2006). Proposal to add Latin letters and a Greek symbol to the UCS (PDF).
  • Heepe, Martin (1928). Lautzeichen und ihre Anwendung in verschiedenen Sprachgebieten (in German). Berlin: Reichsdruckerei.
  • Pryce, William (1790). Archæologia Cornu-Britannica, or, an Essay to Preserve the Ancient Cornish Language. Sherborne: W. Cruttwell.
  • Steinhauser, Walter (1922). Beiträge zur Kunde der bairisch-österreichischen Mundarten, herausgegeben von der Wörterbuch Kommission der Akademie. II. Heft: 1. Textproben. 2. Wortkundliches (in German). Vienne: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky.
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