Request for Latin Lambda

[marrus-sh]

As Unicode 16.0 is now in Beta and the character repertoire is considered stable, I’d like to request glyphs for three Latin characters which are new in that version :⁠—

• U+A7DA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA
• U+A7DB LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA
• U+A7DC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE

These characters are siblings to U+019B LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE, which is already in Junicode (but may warrant a redesign). They are needed for the orthographies of many languages in the Salishan and Wakashan language families (indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest). While they are not medievalist letters, I am requesting them because Junicode is otherwise a fairly complete Latin‐script font.

The original proposal for the characters has lots of details on the design of these characters, but I will summarize the main points here :⁠—

• The lowercase can use either Greek contrast (as Junicode U+019B currently does) or be made more Latinate (in which case U+019B would need to be changed), at the discretion of the font author. The uppercase should have the form of a rotated Latin capital Y in either case, and the characters should be expected to appear beside other Latin glyphs, not Greek ones.

  

• The stroke can be either a straight diagonal (currently used by Junicode U+019B), or a tilde, at the discretion of the font author.

  

• One diacritic is of particular importance to these characters: U+0313 COMBINING COMMA ABOVE.