Turned v

Turned v (majuscule: Λ, minuscule: ʌ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, based on a turned form of V.

It is used in the orthographies of Ch'ol, Nankina, Northern Tepehuán, Temne and Wounaan, and also some orthographies of Ibibio.^[1]

Its lowercase is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet 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 or the Cyrillic Л.

Character encoding

Character	ʌ		Ʌ
Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V		LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED V
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	652	U+028C	581	U+0245
UTF-8	202 140	CA 8C	201 133	C9 85
Numeric character reference	ʌ	ʌ	Ʌ	Ʌ

See also

Similar symbols:

• Caron
• Caret
• Circumflex
• Logical conjunction
• Chevron (insignia)

References

1. Urua 2004

Bibliography

• Urua, Eno-Abasi ; Moses Ekpenyong and Dafydd Gibbon. 2004. Uyo Ibibio Dictionary. Preprint draft. online copy