The Sideways I ꟷ is an

epigraphic Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

variant of Latin capital letter I used in early medieval

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inscriptions from

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and southwest England (

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and

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). About 36 monumental inscriptions in Wales, and about 15 in Cornwall and Devon, mostly dating from the 5th-6th centuries, make use of this letter. Except for a single inscription from the

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, it is not found in monumental inscriptions elsewhere. The letter is used exclusively in a word-final position for Latin words (or Latinized Celtic names) in the second declension genitive singular.

Encoding

The character was proposed for encoding in the

Unicode Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 Char ...

standard in 2011. It has since been encoded at code point in Unicode 7.0.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sideways I Typography Epigraphic letter variants Sub-Roman Britain Medieval inscriptions in Latin 5th-century introductions Latin inscriptions in the United Kingdom