Ʌ (minuscule: ʌ), known as turned V, is a Latin-script letter. It is based on a turned form of the letter V.

It is used in the orthographies of Dan, Ch’ol, Nankina, Northern Tepehuán, Temne, Oneida, and Wounaan and also some orthographies of Ibibio.

Its lowercase is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent an open-mid back unrounded vowel, the vowel in plus in many dialects of English.

Despite the similarity in appearance, the letter has no connection to the Greek Λ or Cyrillic Л.

Character encoding

Related characters

Descendants and related letters in the Latin alphabet

• ʌ with diacritics: ʌ́ ʌ̀

• ᶺ : Modifier letter small turned v is used in phonetic transcription

See also

Similar symbols:

• Caron

• Caret

• Circumflex

• Logical conjunction

• Chevron (insignia)

References

Bibliography

• Urua, Eno-Abasi; Moses Ekpenyong and Dafydd Gibbon. 2004. Uyo Ibibio Dictionary. Preprint draft. online copy