Ł
| L with stroke | |
|---|---|
| Ł ł | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Latin |
| Type | alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Chipewyan, Chukchi, Inupiaq, Kashubian, Kwak'wala, Latvian, Lower Sorbian, Navajo, Northern Khanty, Okanagan, Old English, Polish, Silesian, Tlingit, Upper Sorbian, Venetan |
| Sound values | |
| In Unicode | U+0141, U+0142 |
| History | |
| Development | |
| Transliterations | w |
| Other | |
| Writing direction | Left to right |
Ł or ł, described in English as L with stroke, is a letter of the Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian, Belarusian Latin, Ukrainian Latin, Kurdish (some dialects), Wymysorys, Navajo, Dëne Sųłıné, Iñupiaq, Zuni, Hupa, Sm'álgyax, Nisga'a, and Dogrib alphabets, several proposed alphabets for the Venetian language, and the ISO 11940 romanization of the Thai script. In some Slavic languages, it represents the continuation of the Proto-Slavic non-palatal ⟨L⟩ (dark L), which evolved further into /w/ in Polish, Kashubian, and Sorbian. In most non-European languages, it represents a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative or similar sound.