{{Short description|Latin letter variant}} {{distinguish|reversed ge}} {{Infobox grapheme|image=Latin letter turned L (form 2).svg|imageclass=skin-invert-image|name=Turned L|type=alphabet|typedesc=ic|script=Latin script|letter=Ꞁ ꞁ|phonemes={{IPAblink|ɬ}}|language=Cornish language |fam1=<hiero>U20</hiero> |fam2=<hiero>S39</hiero> |fam3=20px|class=skin-invert-image |fam4=20px|class=skin-invert-image |fam5=20px|class=skin-invert-image |fam6=20px|class=skin-invert-image |fam7=Λ λ |fam8=𐌋 |fam9=L l|usageperiod=1790, 1922}} '''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 {{IPA|/ɬ/}} used in Welsh. In this work, Pryce also used the additional letters turned A {{Angle bracket|Ɐ ɐ}}, Chi {{Angle bracket|Χ χ}}, Insular D {{Angle bracket|Ꝺ ꝺ}}, Insular G {{Angle bracket|Ᵹ ᵹ}}, turned Insular G {{Angle bracket|Ꝿ ꝿ}}, and Insular T {{Angle bracket|Ꞇ ꞇ}}.
In German dialectology, in 1922, Walter Steinhauser uses turned l {{Angle bracket|''ꞁ''}} to represent middle Bavarian ''l'' ({{Lang|de|donaubairische l}}), a palatal consonant.{{Sfn|Steinhauser|1922|p=12}}{{Sfn|Heepe|1928|p=38}}
== Forms and variants == <gallery class=skin-invert-image> Latin_letter_turned_L_(form_2).svg|Form with the lowercase under the baseline. Latin_letter_turned_L.svg|Form with the lowercase above the baseline. </gallery>
== Computing codes == Turned L can be represented with the following Unicode characters (Latin Extended-D): {{Charmap|A780|A781|name1=Latin Capital Letter Turned L|name2=Latin Small Letter Turned L}}
== See also ==
== Notes and references == <references />
=== Bibliography ===
* {{Cite book |last=Everson |first=Michael |url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06266-n3122-insular.pdf |title=Proposal to add Latin letters and a Greek symbol to the UCS |year=2006 |language=en}} * {{Cite book |last=Heepe |first=Martin |title=Lautzeichen und ihre Anwendung in verschiedenen Sprachgebieten |publisher=Reichsdruckerei |year=1928 |location=Berlin |language=de}} * {{Cite book |last=Pryce |first=William |url=https://archive.org/details/archaeologiacor00prycgoog |title=Archæologia Cornu-Britannica, or, an Essay to Preserve the Ancient Cornish Language |publisher=W. Cruttwell |year=1790 |location=Sherborne |language=en}} * {{Cite book |last=Steinhauser |first=Walter |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008447279 |title=Beiträge zur Kunde der bairisch-österreichischen Mundarten, herausgegeben von der Wörterbuch Kommission der Akademie. II. Heft: 1. Textproben. 2. Wortkundliches |publisher=Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky |year=1922 |location=Vienne |language=de}}
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