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Turned L
Ꞁ ꞁ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	alphabetic
Language of origin	Cornish language
Sound values	[ɬ]
History
Development	Λ λ 𐌋 L l Ꞁ ꞁ
Time period	1790, 1922
Other
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Turned L (Ꞁ ꞁ) 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.

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 ⟨ꞁ⟩ to represent middle Bavarian l (donaubairische l), a palatal consonant.

Forms and variants

• Form with the lowercase under the baseline.
• Form with the lowercase above the baseline.

Computing codes

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

See also

• Reversed ge

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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