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This article is about the orthographic character Ł. For the pound sign, see £. For the cryptocurrency, see Litecoin.
Ł or ł, described in English as L with stroke, is a letter of the Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian, Belarusian Latin, Ukrainian Latin, Wymysorys, Navajo, Dëne Sųłıné, Inupiaq, Zuni, Hupa, Sm'álgyax, Nisga'a, and Dogrib alphabets, several proposed alphabets for the Venetian language, and the ISO 11940 romanization of the Thai script. In some Slavic languages, it represents the continuation of the Proto-Slavic non-palatal ⟨L⟩ (dark L), except in Polish, Kashubian, and Sorbian, where it evolved further into /w/. In most non-European languages, it represents a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative or similar sound.
Quick Facts Letter L with stroke, Usage ...
Letter L with stroke | |
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Ł ł | |
Usage | |
Writing system | Latin |
Language of origin | Polish |
Phonetic usage | [w] |
Unicode codepoint | U+0141, U+0142 |
History | |
Development | |
Transliteration equivalents | w |
Other | |
Writing direction | Left to right |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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