λugʷaləs

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlu.ɡwa.ləs/^[1][2][3]

λugʷaləs

1. A male given name from Liqʼwala Kwakʼwala, variant of Ꟛugʷaləs.
   • 2023 March 29, Brett Ballah, “λugʷaləs becomes first baby in B.C. to have his Indigenous name on birth certificate”, in Global News‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 March 2023:

     Smith’s lawyer informed her the province was implementing an interim policy, allowing λugʷaləs’ name to appear on his birth certificate. But Smith says the agency informed the lawyer it would need more time to make the change applicable to all people.

   • 2022 October 14, Elizabeth McSheffrey, “B.C. parents launch court action over rejection of baby’s Indigenous name”, in Global News‎^[2], archived from the original on 15 October 2022:

     λugʷaləs K’ala’ask Shaw was born on Jan. 12 to a Ts’msyen and Haisla mother and a Liǧʷiłdax̌ʷ father from the Wei Wai Kum First Nation. [...] Shaw’s great-grandmother was born near the head of the inlet and the couple said they wanted little λugʷaləs to be rooted in his territory and connected to his ancestors.

• The Latin characters uppercase Ꟛ U+A7DA and lowercase ꟛ U+A7DB were added to the Unicode Standard 16.0 released on 10 September 2024 (Delta Code Charts, Latin Extended-D, Range: A720–A7FF). Before its adoption, only the Greek character λ was available to represent the letter used in Latin orthographies, λugʷaləs was written with the Greek character.
• The Liqʼwala orthography used by the name is usually bicameral and has capital letters for proper nouns, Ꟛugʷaləs with the Latin uppercase may be adequate, ꟛugʷaləs with the Latin lowercase may occur being similar to λugʷaləs with the Greek lowercase.