L with bar

Not to be confused with Ł.

Ƚ (capital Ƚ, lower case ƚ) is a Latin letter L with a bar diacritic. It appears in the alphabet of the Venetian language, and in its capital form it is used in the Saanich orthography created by Dave Elliott in 1978.

Latin L with bar

In Unicode, both the capital and lower case are in the Latin Extended-B block. The capital (U+023D Ƚ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH BAR) is part of the "Additions for Sencoten" (Saanich), while the lower case (U+019A ƚ LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH BAR) is noted as an "Americanist phonetic usage" as an alternative to U+026C ɬ LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH BELT, the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative.^[1]

See also

• Bar (diacritic)
• Ł (similar letter)

References

1. Unicode Consortium (2016). "Latin Extended-B" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 9.0. Retrieved 2016-07-16.