| Lambda | |
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| Writing system | Latin script |
| Type | alphabetic |
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| History | |
| Development | Λ λ
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| Sisters | ƛ |
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Lambda (, ) is an additional letter of theLatin script, based on the lowercase letterlambda from theGreek alphabet (λ). It is used inHeiltsuk,Liqʼwala,Kwakʼwala, andPilagá. In these languages, Latin lambda represents a variety oflateralphonemes. Thelower-case variant is ahomoglyph of lower-caselambda. The upper-case is a large variant of the lower case in Pilagá but a turnedY in North America.[1]
The letter appears in theLiqʼwala dialect ofKwakʼwala language, where it represents/tɬ/. InKwakʼwala, Latin lambda may also be used instead of the digraph⟨dƚ⟩.[2]
In theHeiltsuk dialect of NorthWakashan, Latin lambda represents/tɬ/ and may be alternatively rendered as⟨dh⟩.[3]
In thePilagá language, Latin lambda is used to represent/ʎ/.[1]
Unicode support was assigned to U+A7DA and U+A7DB in September 2024.[4][5]
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| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA | LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 42970 | U+A7DA | 42971 | U+A7DB |
| UTF-8 | 234 159 154 | EA 9F 9A | 234 159 155 | EA 9F 9B |
| Numeric character reference | Ꟛ | Ꟛ | ꟛ | ꟛ |
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