The Sideways I ꟷ is an epigraphic variant of Latin capital letter I used in early medieval

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inscriptions from

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and southwest England (

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and

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). About 36 monumental inscriptions in Wales, and about 15 in Cornwall and Devon, mostly dating from the 5th-6th centuries, make use of this letter. Except for a single inscription from the

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, it is not found in monumental inscriptions elsewhere. The letter is used exclusively in a word-final position for Latin words (or Latinized Celtic names) in the second declension genitive singular.

Encoding

The character was proposed for encoding in the

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standard in 2011. It has since been encoded at code point in Unicode 7.0.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sideways I Typography Epigraphic letter variants Sub-Roman Britain Medieval Latin inscriptions 5th-century introductions