Latin iota

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Ɩ
Ɩ ɩ
Upper and lower case Latin iota
Usage
Writing systemLatin script
TypeAlphabetic and Logographic
In UnicodeU+0196, U+0269
Other
Writing directionLeft-to-Right
Sample "Ɩɩ" from various typefaces.

Latin iota (majuscule: Ɩ, minuscule: ɩ) is a letter of the

lowercase of the Greek letter iota
(ι).

It was formerly used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent [ɪ] (the vowel in English "bit"). It was replaced by a small capital I (ɪ) in 1989, but it can still be found in use in some later works. Other variations are used for phonetic transcription:[1] ⟨ᵼ⟩, ⟨ᶥ⟩.

Ɩ has been adopted as a letter in the alphabets of some

Mossi. Its capital form has a hook to distinguish it from capital I. The accented italic form ɩ is very often indistinguishable from the italic letter small I i in serif
fonts.

References

  1. ^ Constable, Peter (2004-04-19). "L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS" (PDF).