| Ɩ | |
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| Ɩ ɩ | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Latin script |
| Type | Alphabetic and Logographic |
| Unicode codepoint | U+0196, U+0269 |
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| Other | |
| Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
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Latin iota (majuscule: Ɩ, minuscule: ɩ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, based on 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 African languages, such as Gurunɛ, Kabiyé or 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.