Lambda (Latin letter)

Additional letter of the Latin alphabet

Lambda

Ꟛ ꟛ
Usage
Writing system| Latin script
Type| alphabetic
Sound values|

* /ʎ/
* /tɬ/
* /dl/

History
Development|

Λ λ

* Ꟛ ꟛ

Sisters| Ƛ ƛ
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Lambda (Ꟛ, ꟛ) is an additional letter of the Latin script, based on the lowercase letter lambda from the Greek alphabet (λ). It is used in Heiltsuk, Liqʼwala, Kwakʼwala, and Pilagá. In these languages, Latin lambda represents a variety of lateral phonemes. The lower-case variant is a homoglyph of lower-case lambda. The upper-case is a large variant of the lower case in Pilagá but a turned Y in North America.[1]

## Usage

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The letter appears in the Liqʼwala dialect of Kwakʼwala language, where it represents /tɬ/. In Kwakʼwala, Latin lambda may also be used instead of the digraph ⟨dƚ⟩.[2]

In the Heiltsuk dialect of North Wakashan, Latin lambda represents /tɬ/ and may be alternatively rendered as ⟨dh⟩.[3]

In the Pilagá language, Latin lambda is used to represent /ʎ/.[1]

Unicode support was assigned to U+A7DA and U+A7DB in September 2024.[4][5]

## Encodings

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Character information  Preview | Ꟛ | ꟛ

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Unicode name  | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA  | LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex
Unicode | 42970 | U+A7DA | 42971 | U+A7DB
UTF-8 | 234 159 154 | EA 9F 9A | 234 159 155 | EA 9F 9B
Numeric character reference | &#42970; | &#xA7DA; | &#42971; | &#xA7DB;

## Gallery

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* An example for the Lambda (latin) letter by the Times New Roman.

## References

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1. ^ a b Jacquerye, Denis Moyogo (2021-08-18). "Proposal to encode additional Latin letters for languages of Argentina, Canada and the USA" (PDF). Retrieved 7 September 2022.
2. ^ Werle, Adam. "Linguistics 181: Kwakwala" (PDF).
3. ^ Humchitt, Robyn (1975). "The Heiltsuk Alphabet" (PDF). Retrieved 7 September 2022.
4. ^ Unicode Latin Extended-D block
5. ^ "Unicode 16.0.0". Unicode. Retrieved 28 November 2024.

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Letter L with diacritics

Ĺĺ | Ľľ | Ļļ | Ḷḷ | Ḹḹ | L̃l̃ | Ḽḽ | Ḻḻ | Łł | Ŀŀ | Ƚƚ | Ꝉꝉ | Ⱡⱡ | Ɫɫ | Ɬɬ | Ꞁꞁ | ꞎ | 𝼓 | ꬷ | ꬸ | ꬹ | ᶅ | ɭ | ȴ | 𝼑 | 𝼦

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* IJ
* Lj
* Ll
* Ly
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* Sh
* Sz
* Th

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Trigraphs|

* dzs
* eau

Tetragraphs|

* ough

Pentagraphs|

tzsch

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* ISO/IEC 646
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* Unicode
* DIN 91379: Unicode subset for Europe

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* Letters used in mathematics
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