NationMaster - Encyclopedia: L with stroke

Ł or ł, described in English as L with stroke, is a letter of the Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian, and Łacinka (Latin Belarusian) alphabets. It represents the Lekhitic/East Slavic continuation of Proto-Slavic non-palatal l; see Dark L. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Polish alphabet is the script of the Polish language. ... The Kashubian alphabet is the script of the Kashubian language. ... The Sorbian alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet but uses diacritics such as the acute accent and the hacek. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Belarusian is the language of the Belarusian nation. ... The Lechitic languages include three or possibly four languages spoken in eastern Europe, principally in Poland. ... This article or section should be merged with List of East Slavic languages The East Slavic languages constitute one of three regional subgroups of Slavic languages, currently spoken in Eastern Europe. ... This article or section should include material from Common Slavonic Proto-Slavic is a reconstructed language which is a common ancestor of all Slavic languages. ... Palatal consonants are consonants articulated with the middle or back part of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth). ... A dark l is a common way of referring to a velarised alveolar lateral approximant. ...

Ł first appeared in the 16th century, in Polish texts. (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... Polish (polski, język polski) is the official language of Poland. ...

Nowadays in 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).

It is also used in Navajo for a voiceless lateral frictive ( ɬ). The term Navajo (occasionally spelled Navaho) or Diné refers to the Navajo Nation and its people, and to the Navajo language. ...

Latin alphabet:

Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Qq | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz

Modified characters:

Àà | Áá | Ââ | Ää | Åå | Āā | Ąą | Çç | Ĉĉ | Čč | Ćć | Đđ | Ęę | Ëë | Ĝĝ | Ğğ | Ĥĥ | Įį | Ïï | ı | Ĵĵ | Łł | Ññ | Õõ | Öö | Őő | Øø | Ǫǫ | Şş | Șș | Šš | Ŝŝ | Țț | Ŭŭ | Üü | Ųų | Ůů | Űű | Žž The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world, the standard script of the English language and most of the languages of western and central Europe, and of those areas settled by Europeans. ... The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. ... The letter B is the second letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... If you were looking for the C, C++, or C# programming languages then see C programming language, C Plus Plus, or C Sharp programming language C is the third letter of the Roman alphabet. ... The letter D is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... The letter E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. ... The letter F is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet. ... G is the seventh letter in the Roman alphabet. ... H is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... I is the 9th letter in the Latin alphabet. ... J is the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... The eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet, K comes from the Greek Κ or κ (Kappa) developed from the Semitic Kap, symbol for an open hand. ... L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... M is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... N is the fourteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... O is the fifteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... P is the 16th letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Q is the 17th letter of the Latin alphabet. ... R is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... S is the nineteenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. ... T is the twentieth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... U is the twenty-first letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. ... W is the twenty-third letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... X is the twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Y is the twenty-fifth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet. ... A diacritic mark or accent mark is an additional mark added to a basic letter. ... The grave accent ( ` ) is a diacritic mark used in written Greek until 1982 ( polytonic orthography), French, Catalan, Welsh, Italian, Vietnamese, Scottish Gaelic, Norwegian, Portuguese, and other languages. ... The acute accent (´) is a diacritic mark used in written French, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Greek, Welsh, Hungarian, Faroese, Icelandic, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Vietnamese, Dutch, Irish Gaelic, Croatian, Navajo and other languages. ... The circumflex ( ˆ ) is a diacritic mark used in written Greek, French, Esperanto, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Vietnamese, Japanese romaji, Welsh, Portuguese, Italian, and other languages. ... Ä - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Å, or å, is a letter, representing a vowel, in the Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Walloon and Chamorro alphabets. ... A-macron (Ā or ā) is a letter, representing a vowel, in the Latvian alphabet. ... Ogonek (Polish for little tail) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in Polish, Lithuanian, Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua and Tutchone. ... A cedilla is a hook (¸) added under certain consonant letters as a diacritic mark to modify their pronunciation. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... HACEK organisms are a subgroup of bacteria. ... Ð, Unicode codepoint 208, U+00D0 is: Ð, a letter used in Old English and present_day Icelandic and Faroese. ... Ogonek (Polish for little tail; In Lithuanian it is nosinė which litterally means handkerchief) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in Polish, Lithuanian, Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua and Tutchone. ... In linguistics, a diaeresis or dieresis (AE) (from Greek diairein, to divide) is either the modification of a syllable by distinctly pronouncing one of its vowels. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Ogonek (Polish for little tail; In Lithuanian it is nosinė which litterally means handkerchief) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in Polish, Lithuanian, Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua and Tutchone. ... In linguistics, a diaeresis or dieresis (AE) (from Greek diairein, to divide) is the modification of a syllable by distinctly pronouncing one of its vowels. ... The Dotless I is a letter from the Turkish variant of the Latin alphabet, used to write the Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Tatar languages. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Ñ or eñe, (Spanish enye) represents an n sound followed by a y. ... Õ, or õ, is a vowel and a letter in the Estonian alphabet, representing []. Õ also occurs in the Portuguese language, where it stands for an accented nasalized [o]. It is not an actual letter of the alphabet, but a composition of the letter O and the diacritic mark tilde. ... Ö, or ö, is a glyph which represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, the letter O with umlaut, or a letter O with diaeresis. ... Double acute accent is a diacritic mark used in written Hungarian. ... Ø ø Ø, ø is a vowel and a letter used in the Danish, Faroese and Norwegian alphabets. ... Ogonek (Polish for little tail; In Lithuanian it is nosinė which litterally means handkerchief) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in Polish, Lithuanian, Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua and Tutchone. ... Ş ş (S-cedilla) is a letter used in Turkish, Azeri, Tatar, Kurdish and Turkmenian languages. ... A cedilla is a hook (¸) added under certain consonant letters as a diacritic mark to modify their pronunciation. ... HACEK organisms are a subgroup of bacteria. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... A cedilla is a hook (¸) added under certain consonant letters as a diacritic mark to modify their pronunciation. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Ü, or ü, is a glyph which represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, the letter U with umlaut, or a letter U with diaeresis. ... Ogonek (Polish for little tail; In Lithuanian it is nosinė which litterally means handkerchief) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in Polish, Lithuanian, Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua and Tutchone. ... In punctuation, the term ring is usually reserved for the ring above diacritic mark ˚ (looks similar to °). The ring may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets. ... Double acute accent is a diacritic mark used in written Hungarian. ... HACEK organisms are a subgroup of bacteria. ...

Alphabet extensions:

Ææ | Ðð | Ǳǳ | Ǆǆ | Əə | Ȝȝ | Ƕƕ | ĸ | Ǉǉ | LLll | Ǌǌ | Œœ | Ȣȣ |  | ſ | ß | Þþ | Ƿƿ | Ĳĳ

Categories: Uncommon Latin letters | Belarusian language Æ æ For the article on Æ, the Irish writer, see: George William Russell Æ, or æ, is a vowel and a grapheme used in the Icelandic, Danish, Faroese, and Norwegian alphabets. ... Ð (capital Ð, lower-case ð) (or eth, eð or edh, Faroese: edd) is a letter used in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and present-day Icelandic and Faroese. ... DŽ (miniscule dž, titlecase Dž) is the seventh letter of the Croatian alphabet, after D and before Đ. It is pronounced as . ... See Schwa (art) for the underground artist. ... Yogh (Ȝ ȝ) is a letter used in Middle English and Middle Scots, representing y (IPA /j/) and various velar phonemes. ... Hwair (lowercase , uppercase ) is a letter from various medieval Latin alphabets, which is currently still used in the transcription of the Gothic alphabet. ... Kra (ĸ) is a character used when writing the Kalaallisut language spoken in Greenland. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... This page is about the ligature, not the simple combination of the letters O and E. For initialisms and the word Oe, see Oe. ... The letter Ou () is a letter in the extended Latin alphabet. ... Between the middle ages and today, many ways of writing alphabetical characters were lost. ... The long or medial s (ſ) is a form of the minuscule letter s that was formerly used when the s occurred within or at the beginning of the word, for example ſinfulneſs (sinfulness). The modern letterform was called the terminal or short s. ... The ß — Eszett ( IPA ) in German or scharfes S (sharp S) if spelled out — is a letter used only in the German alphabet. ... Þ þ Þ (capital Þ, lower-case þ) or Thorn or Þorn is a letter in the Anglo_Saxon and Icelandic alphabets. ... Categories: Language stubs | Old English language | Runes | Uncommon Latin letters ... Ĳ (IJ) is a letter from the Dutch alphabet used to represent the diphthong or . ...