Ł
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Ł or ł, described in English as L with stroke, is a letter of the Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian, Łacinka (Latin Belarusian), Wilamowicean, Navajo, Dene Suline Dogrib language alphabets, and of several proposed alphabets for the Venetian language. In Slavic languages, it represents the Lechitic–West Slavic continuation of Proto-Slavic non-palatal l (see dark L). In most non-European languages, it represents a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative or similar sound.
Ł first appeared in the 16th century, in Polish texts.
In modern Polish, ł is normally pronounced /w/ (almost exactly as w in English as a consonant, as in were, will, firewall but not as in new or straw). However, the old pronunciation (velarized alveolar lateral approximant) is preserved in the eastern part of Poland and among the Polish minority in Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine.
In Belarusian Łacinka, ł corresponds to Cyrillic л, and is normally pronounced /ɫ/ (almost exactly as l in English pull).
In Navajo, ł is used for a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative (ɬ), like the Welsh Ll.
In Venetian Language ł is used in substitution for l in many words in which the pronunciation of l has become different for several varieties of the language, such as becoming mute or becoming the sound of English a and the Venetian e. For example: "la gondoła " can be pronunced as (in Venetian) "la gondola", or "la gòndoa", or "la gòndoea".
When writing Scandinavian dialects having the pronunciation of a retroflex flap for the standard languages' l, many authors employ ł.
The Unicode codepoints for the letter are U+0142 for the lower case, and U+0141 for the capital.[1]
[edit] References
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- ^ Unicode Character 'LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE' (U+0142). FileFormat.info. Retrieved on 2007-12-20.
[edit] External links
- Kreska ukośna in Polish Diacritics: How to?, by Adam Twardoch, Polish country delegate at ATypI
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