Turned v (
majuscule
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally '' majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (more formally '' minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing syste ...
: Ʌ,
minuscule: ʌ) is a letter of the
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the Ancient Rome, ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered except several letters splitting—i.e. from , and from � ...
, based on a turned form of the letter
V.
It is used in the orthographies of
Dan,
Ch’ol,
Nankina,
Northern Tepehuán,
Temne,
Oneida, and
Wounaan and also some orthographies of
Ibibio.
Its lowercase is used in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation ...
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, Cyrillic
Л,
CJK radical
人, or Korean
ㅅ.
In German and French handwriting, the numeral 1 often takes the form of a turned V, whereby the serif is extended down to the length of the main stroke.
Character encoding
Related characters
Descendants and related letters in the Latin alphabet
*ʌ with
diacritic
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word ''diacrit ...
s: ʌ́ ʌ̀
*ᶺ : Modifier letter small turned v is used in phonetic transcription
See also
Similar symbols:
*
Caron
A caron or háček ( ), is a diacritic mark () placed over certain letters in the orthography of some languages, to indicate a change of the related letter's pronunciation.
Typographers tend to use the term ''caron'', while linguists prefer ...
*
Caret
*
Circumflex
The circumflex () is a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is also used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from "bent around"a translation of ...
*
Logical conjunction
In logic, mathematics and linguistics, ''and'' (\wedge) is the Truth function, truth-functional operator of conjunction or logical conjunction. The logical connective of this operator is typically represented as \wedge or \& or K (prefix) or ...
*
Chevron (insignia)
References
Bibliography
* Urua, Eno-Abasi ; Moses Ekpenyong and Dafydd Gibbon. 2004. ''Uyo Ibibio Dictionary''. Preprint draft
online copy
Latin-script letters
Phonetic transcription symbols
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