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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the letter of the alphabet. For other uses, see L (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with ǀ.
L
ISO basic
Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd
Ee Ff Gg Hh
Ii Jj Kk Ll
Mm Nn Oo Pp
Qq Rr Ss Tt
Uu Vv Ww Xx
Yy Zz
v t e
Writing cursive forms of L
MAYBE LATER CLOSE
L (named el /ɛl/)[1] is the twelfth letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet, used in words such as lagoon, lantern, and less.
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Use in writing systems
2.1 Phonetic and phonemic transcription
2.2 English
2.3 Other languages
3 Other uses
4 Forms and variants
5 Related characters
5.1 Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
5.2 Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations
5.3 Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
6 Computing codes
7 Other representations
8 References
9 External links
History
Egyptian hieroglyph Phoenician
lamedh Etruscan L Greek
Lambda
S39
PhoenicianL-01.svg EtruscanL-01.svg Lambda uc lc.svg
Lamedh may have come from a pictogram of an ox goad or cattle prod. Some have suggested a shepherd's staff.[2]
Use in writing systems
Phonetic and phonemic transcription
In phonetic and phonemic transcription, the International Phonetic Alphabet uses ⟨l⟩ to represent the lateral alveolar approximant.
English
In English orthography, ⟨l⟩ usually represents the phoneme /l/, which can have several sound values, depending on whether it occurs before or after a vowel. The alveolar lateral approximant (the sound represented in IPA by lowercase [l]) occurs before a vowel, as in lip or blend, while the velarized alveolar lateral approximant (IPA [ɫ]) occurs in bell and milk. This velarization does not occur in many European languages that use ⟨l⟩; it is also a factor making the pronunciation of ⟨l⟩ difficult for users of languages that lack ⟨l⟩ or have different values for it, such as Japanese or some southern dialects of Chinese. A medical condition or speech impediment restricting the pronunciation of ⟨l⟩ is known as lambdacism.
In English orthography, ⟨l⟩ is often silent in such words as walk or could (though its presence can modify the preceding vowel letter's sound), and it is usually silent in such words as palm and psalm; however, there is some regional variation.
Other languages
⟨l⟩ usually represents the sound [l] or some other lateral consonant.
Common digraphs include ⟨ll⟩, which has a value identical to ⟨l⟩ in English, but has the separate value voiceless alveolar lateral fricative (IPA [ɬ]) in Welsh, where it can appear in an initial position. In Spanish, ⟨ll⟩ represents [ʎ], [j], [ʝ], [ɟʝ], or [ʃ], depending on dialect.
A palatal lateral approximant or palatal ⟨l⟩ (IPA [ʎ]) occurs in many languages, and is represented by ⟨gli⟩ in Italian, ⟨ll⟩ in Spanish and Catalan, ⟨lh⟩ in Portuguese, and ⟨ļ⟩ in Latvian.
Other uses
The capital letter L is used as the currency sign for the Albanian lek and the Honduran lempira. It was often used, especially in handwriting, as the currency sign for the Italian lira. It is also infrequently used as a substitute for the pound sign (£), which is based on it.
The Roman numeral Ⅼ represents the number 50.[3]
Forms and variants
"ℓ" redirects here. For the azimuthal quantum number, see azimuthal quantum number.
In some fonts, the lowercase letter ⟨l⟩ may be difficult to distinguish from the digit one, ⟨1⟩, or an uppercase letter ⟨I⟩. In recent times, many new fonts have curved the lowercase form to the right, and it is increasingly common, especially on European road signs and advertisements. A more modern version based on the handwritten letter-like ⟨ℓ⟩ is sometimes used in mathematics and elsewhere. In Japan, for example, this is the symbol for the liter. Its LaTeX command is \ell, its codepoint is U+2113, and its numeric character reference is "ℓ".
Related characters
Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
IPA-specific symbols related to L: ʟ ɫ ɬ ɭ ɺ ɮ ꞎ ˡ
Uralic Phonetic Alphabet-specific symbols related to L:[4] U+1D0C ᴌ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L WITH STROKE and U+1D38 ᴸ MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL L
ₗ : Subscript small l was used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet prior to its formal standardization in 1902[5]
ȴ : L with curl is used in Sino-Tibetanist linguistics[6]
Ꞁ ꞁ : Turned L was used by William Pryce to designate the Welsh voiced lateral spirant [ɬ][7]
Other variations are used for phonetic transcription:[8] ᶅ ᶩ ᶪ ᶫ
Ꝇ ꝇ : Broken L was used in some medieval Nordic manuscripts[9]
Teuthonista phonetic transcription-specific symbols related to R:[10]
U+AB37 ꬷ LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH INVERTED LAZY S
U+AB38 ꬸ LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH DOUBLE MIDDLE TILDE
U+AB39 ꬹ LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH MIDDLE RING
U+AB5D ꭝ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH INVERTED LAZY S
U+AB5E ꭞ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH MIDDLE TILDE
L with diacritics: Ĺ ĺ Ł ł Ľ ľ Ḹ ḹ L̃ l̃ Ļ ļ Ŀ ŀ Ḷ ḷ Ḻ ḻ Ḽ ḽ Ƚ ƚ Ⱡ ⱡ
Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations
ℒ ℓ : Script letter L (capital and lowercase, respectively)
£ : pound sign
₤ : lira sign
Ꝉ ꝉ : Forms of L were used for medieval scribal abbreviations[11]
Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
𐤋 : Semitic letter Lamedh, from which the following symbols originally derive
Λ λ : Greek letter Lambda, from which the following letters derive
Л л : Cyrillic letter El
Ⲗⲗ : Coptic letter Lamda
𐌋 : Old Italic letter L, which is the ancestor of modern Latin L
ᛚ : Runic letter laguz, which probably derives from old Italic L
𐌻 : Gothic letter laaz
Computing codes
Character L l
Unicode name latin capital letter l latin small letter l
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 76 U+004C 108 U+006C
UTF-8 76 4C 108 6C
Numeric character reference L L l l
EBCDIC family 211 D3 147 93
ASCII 1 76 4C 108 6C
1 Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Other representations
NATO phonetic Morse code
Lima ·–··
ICS Lima.svg Semaphore Lima.svg Sign language L.svg ⠇
Signal flag Flag semaphore American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspelling) Braille
dots-123
References
Jump up ^ "L" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989) Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged. (1993); "el", "ells", op. cit.
Jump up ^ "Ancient Hebrew Research Center". Retrieved 12 January 2015.
Jump up ^ Gordon, Arthur E. (1983). Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy. University of California Press. p. 44. ISBN 9780520038981. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
Jump up ^ Everson, Michael; et al. (2002-03-20). "L2/02-141: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Ruppel, Klaas; Aalto, Tero; Everson, Michael (2009-01-27). "L2/09-028: Proposal to encode additional characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Cook, Richard; Everson, Michael (2001-09-20). "L2/01-347: Proposal to add six phonetic characters to the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Everson, Michael (2006-08-06). "L2/06-266: Proposal to add Latin letters and a Greek symbol to the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Constable, Peter (2004-04-19). "L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Emiliano, António; Grammel, Florian; Haugen, Odd Einar; Luft, Diana; Pedro, Susana; Schumacher, Gerd; Stötzner, Andreas (2006-01-30). "L2/06-027: Proposal to add Medievalist characters to the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Everson, Michael; Dicklberger, Alois; Pentzlin, Karl; Wandl-Vogt, Eveline (2011-06-02). "L2/11-202: Revised proposal to encode "Teuthonista" phonetic characters in the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Emiliano, António; Grammel, Florian; Haugen, Odd Einar; Luft, Diana; Pedro, Susana; Schumacher, Gerd; Stötzner, Andreas (2006-01-30). "L2/06-027: Proposal to add Medievalist characters to the UCS" (PDF).
External links
The dictionary definition of L at Wiktionary
The dictionary definition of l at Wiktionary
The dictionary definition of ℓ at Wiktionary
[hide] v t e
Latin script
History Spread Romanization Roman numerals
Alphabets (list)
Classical Latin alphabet ISO basic Latin alphabet phonetic alphabets International Phonetic Alphabet X-SAMPA Spelling alphabet
Letters (list)
Letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
Letter L with diacritics
Ĺĺ Ľľ Ļļ Ḷḷ Ḹḹ L̃l̃ Ḽḽ Ḻḻ Łł Ŀŀ Ƚƚ Ꝉꝉ Ⱡⱡ Ɫɫ Ɬɬ ꞎ ꬷ ꬸ ꬹ ᶅ ɭ ȴ
Multigraphs
Digraphs
ch cz dž dz gh ij ll ly nh ny sh sz th
Trigraphs
dzs eau
Tetragraphs
ough
Pentagraphs
tzsch
Keyboard layouts (list)
QWERTY QWERTZ AZERTY
Standards
ISO/IEC 646 Unicode Western Latin character sets
Lists
precomposed Latin characters in Unicode letters used in mathematics
Diacritics Palaeography
Categories: ISO basic Latin letters
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Avañe'ẽ
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تۆرکجه
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Беларуская
Беларуская (тарашкевіца)
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Nāhuatl
Nederlands
日本語
Nordfriisk
Norsk
Norsk nynorsk
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Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски
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தமிழ்
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L
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the letter of the alphabet. For other uses, see L (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with ǀ.
L
ISO basic
Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd
Ee Ff Gg Hh
Ii Jj Kk Ll
Mm Nn Oo Pp
Qq Rr Ss Tt
Uu Vv Ww Xx
Yy Zz
v t e
Writing cursive forms of L
MAYBE LATER CLOSE
L (named el /ɛl/)[1] is the twelfth letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet, used in words such as lagoon, lantern, and less.
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Use in writing systems
2.1 Phonetic and phonemic transcription
2.2 English
2.3 Other languages
3 Other uses
4 Forms and variants
5 Related characters
5.1 Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
5.2 Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations
5.3 Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
6 Computing codes
7 Other representations
8 References
9 External links
History
Egyptian hieroglyph Phoenician
lamedh Etruscan L Greek
Lambda
S39
PhoenicianL-01.svg EtruscanL-01.svg Lambda uc lc.svg
Lamedh may have come from a pictogram of an ox goad or cattle prod. Some have suggested a shepherd's staff.[2]
Use in writing systems
Phonetic and phonemic transcription
In phonetic and phonemic transcription, the International Phonetic Alphabet uses ⟨l⟩ to represent the lateral alveolar approximant.
English
In English orthography, ⟨l⟩ usually represents the phoneme /l/, which can have several sound values, depending on whether it occurs before or after a vowel. The alveolar lateral approximant (the sound represented in IPA by lowercase [l]) occurs before a vowel, as in lip or blend, while the velarized alveolar lateral approximant (IPA [ɫ]) occurs in bell and milk. This velarization does not occur in many European languages that use ⟨l⟩; it is also a factor making the pronunciation of ⟨l⟩ difficult for users of languages that lack ⟨l⟩ or have different values for it, such as Japanese or some southern dialects of Chinese. A medical condition or speech impediment restricting the pronunciation of ⟨l⟩ is known as lambdacism.
In English orthography, ⟨l⟩ is often silent in such words as walk or could (though its presence can modify the preceding vowel letter's sound), and it is usually silent in such words as palm and psalm; however, there is some regional variation.
Other languages
⟨l⟩ usually represents the sound [l] or some other lateral consonant.
Common digraphs include ⟨ll⟩, which has a value identical to ⟨l⟩ in English, but has the separate value voiceless alveolar lateral fricative (IPA [ɬ]) in Welsh, where it can appear in an initial position. In Spanish, ⟨ll⟩ represents [ʎ], [j], [ʝ], [ɟʝ], or [ʃ], depending on dialect.
A palatal lateral approximant or palatal ⟨l⟩ (IPA [ʎ]) occurs in many languages, and is represented by ⟨gli⟩ in Italian, ⟨ll⟩ in Spanish and Catalan, ⟨lh⟩ in Portuguese, and ⟨ļ⟩ in Latvian.
Other uses
The capital letter L is used as the currency sign for the Albanian lek and the Honduran lempira. It was often used, especially in handwriting, as the currency sign for the Italian lira. It is also infrequently used as a substitute for the pound sign (£), which is based on it.
The Roman numeral Ⅼ represents the number 50.[3]
Forms and variants
"ℓ" redirects here. For the azimuthal quantum number, see azimuthal quantum number.
In some fonts, the lowercase letter ⟨l⟩ may be difficult to distinguish from the digit one, ⟨1⟩, or an uppercase letter ⟨I⟩. In recent times, many new fonts have curved the lowercase form to the right, and it is increasingly common, especially on European road signs and advertisements. A more modern version based on the handwritten letter-like ⟨ℓ⟩ is sometimes used in mathematics and elsewhere. In Japan, for example, this is the symbol for the liter. Its LaTeX command is \ell, its codepoint is U+2113, and its numeric character reference is "ℓ".
Related characters
Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
IPA-specific symbols related to L: ʟ ɫ ɬ ɭ ɺ ɮ ꞎ ˡ
Uralic Phonetic Alphabet-specific symbols related to L:[4] U+1D0C ᴌ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L WITH STROKE and U+1D38 ᴸ MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL L
ₗ : Subscript small l was used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet prior to its formal standardization in 1902[5]
ȴ : L with curl is used in Sino-Tibetanist linguistics[6]
Ꞁ ꞁ : Turned L was used by William Pryce to designate the Welsh voiced lateral spirant [ɬ][7]
Other variations are used for phonetic transcription:[8] ᶅ ᶩ ᶪ ᶫ
Ꝇ ꝇ : Broken L was used in some medieval Nordic manuscripts[9]
Teuthonista phonetic transcription-specific symbols related to R:[10]
U+AB37 ꬷ LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH INVERTED LAZY S
U+AB38 ꬸ LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH DOUBLE MIDDLE TILDE
U+AB39 ꬹ LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH MIDDLE RING
U+AB5D ꭝ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH INVERTED LAZY S
U+AB5E ꭞ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH MIDDLE TILDE
L with diacritics: Ĺ ĺ Ł ł Ľ ľ Ḹ ḹ L̃ l̃ Ļ ļ Ŀ ŀ Ḷ ḷ Ḻ ḻ Ḽ ḽ Ƚ ƚ Ⱡ ⱡ
Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations
ℒ ℓ : Script letter L (capital and lowercase, respectively)
£ : pound sign
₤ : lira sign
Ꝉ ꝉ : Forms of L were used for medieval scribal abbreviations[11]
Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
𐤋 : Semitic letter Lamedh, from which the following symbols originally derive
Λ λ : Greek letter Lambda, from which the following letters derive
Л л : Cyrillic letter El
Ⲗⲗ : Coptic letter Lamda
𐌋 : Old Italic letter L, which is the ancestor of modern Latin L
ᛚ : Runic letter laguz, which probably derives from old Italic L
𐌻 : Gothic letter laaz
Computing codes
Character L l
Unicode name latin capital letter l latin small letter l
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 76 U+004C 108 U+006C
UTF-8 76 4C 108 6C
Numeric character reference L L l l
EBCDIC family 211 D3 147 93
ASCII 1 76 4C 108 6C
1 Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Other representations
NATO phonetic Morse code
Lima ·–··
ICS Lima.svg Semaphore Lima.svg Sign language L.svg ⠇
Signal flag Flag semaphore American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspelling) Braille
dots-123
References
Jump up ^ "L" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989) Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged. (1993); "el", "ells", op. cit.
Jump up ^ "Ancient Hebrew Research Center". Retrieved 12 January 2015.
Jump up ^ Gordon, Arthur E. (1983). Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy. University of California Press. p. 44. ISBN 9780520038981. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
Jump up ^ Everson, Michael; et al. (2002-03-20). "L2/02-141: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Ruppel, Klaas; Aalto, Tero; Everson, Michael (2009-01-27). "L2/09-028: Proposal to encode additional characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Cook, Richard; Everson, Michael (2001-09-20). "L2/01-347: Proposal to add six phonetic characters to the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Everson, Michael (2006-08-06). "L2/06-266: Proposal to add Latin letters and a Greek symbol to the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Constable, Peter (2004-04-19). "L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Emiliano, António; Grammel, Florian; Haugen, Odd Einar; Luft, Diana; Pedro, Susana; Schumacher, Gerd; Stötzner, Andreas (2006-01-30). "L2/06-027: Proposal to add Medievalist characters to the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Everson, Michael; Dicklberger, Alois; Pentzlin, Karl; Wandl-Vogt, Eveline (2011-06-02). "L2/11-202: Revised proposal to encode "Teuthonista" phonetic characters in the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Emiliano, António; Grammel, Florian; Haugen, Odd Einar; Luft, Diana; Pedro, Susana; Schumacher, Gerd; Stötzner, Andreas (2006-01-30). "L2/06-027: Proposal to add Medievalist characters to the UCS" (PDF).
External links
The dictionary definition of L at Wiktionary
The dictionary definition of l at Wiktionary
The dictionary definition of ℓ at Wiktionary
[hide] v t e
Latin script
History Spread Romanization Roman numerals
Alphabets (list)
Classical Latin alphabet ISO basic Latin alphabet phonetic alphabets International Phonetic Alphabet X-SAMPA Spelling alphabet
Letters (list)
Letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
Letter L with diacritics
Ĺĺ Ľľ Ļļ Ḷḷ Ḹḹ L̃l̃ Ḽḽ Ḻḻ Łł Ŀŀ Ƚƚ Ꝉꝉ Ⱡⱡ Ɫɫ Ɬɬ ꞎ ꬷ ꬸ ꬹ ᶅ ɭ ȴ
Multigraphs
Digraphs
ch cz dž dz gh ij ll ly nh ny sh sz th
Trigraphs
dzs eau
Tetragraphs
ough
Pentagraphs
tzsch
Keyboard layouts (list)
QWERTY QWERTZ AZERTY
Standards
ISO/IEC 646 Unicode Western Latin character sets
Lists
precomposed Latin characters in Unicode letters used in mathematics
Diacritics Palaeography
Categories: ISO basic Latin letters
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Acèh
Afrikaans
Alemannisch
አማርኛ
العربية
Aragonés
ܐܪܡܝܐ
Asturianu
Avañe'ẽ
Azərbaycanca
تۆرکجه
Bân-lâm-gú
Беларуская
Беларуская (тарашкевіца)
Български
Bosanski
Brezhoneg
Català
Чӑвашла
Čeština
Corsu
Cymraeg
Dansk
Davvisámegiella
Deutsch
Eesti
Ελληνικά
Emiliàn e rumagnòl
Español
Esperanto
Euskara
فارسی
Føroyskt
Français
Frysk
Furlan
Gaeilge
Gaelg
Gàidhlig
Galego
贛語
Хальмг
한국어
Հայերեն
Hrvatski
Ido
Ilokano
Bahasa Indonesia
Íslenska
Italiano
עברית
ქართული
Kaszëbsczi
Kernowek
Kiswahili
Коми
Kreyòl ayisyen
Kurdî
Latina
Latviešu
Lëtzebuergesch
Lietuvių
Magyar
Македонски
मराठी
Bahasa Melayu
Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄
မြန်မာဘာသာ
Nāhuatl
Nederlands
日本語
Nordfriisk
Norsk
Norsk nynorsk
Nouormand
Олык марий
Oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
Polski
Português
Română
Runa Simi
Русский
Scots
Seeltersk
Sicilianu
Simple English
Slovenčina
Slovenščina
Sranantongo
Српски / srpski
Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски
Basa Sunda
Suomi
Svenska
Tagalog
தமிழ்
Татарча/tatarça
ไทย
Türkçe
Українська
Vèneto
Vepsän kel’
Tiếng Việt
Volapük
Winaray
ייִדיש
Yorùbá
粵語
Zazaki
Žemaitėška
中文
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L
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This article is about the letter of the alphabet. For other uses, see L (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with ǀ.
L
ISO basic
Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd
Ee Ff Gg Hh
Ii Jj Kk Ll
Mm Nn Oo Pp
Qq Rr Ss Tt
Uu Vv Ww Xx
Yy Zz
v t e
Writing cursive forms of L
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L (named el /ɛl/)[1] is the twelfth letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet, used in words such as lagoon, lantern, and less.
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Use in writing systems
2.1 Phonetic and phonemic transcription
2.2 English
2.3 Other languages
3 Other uses
4 Forms and variants
5 Related characters
5.1 Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
5.2 Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations
5.3 Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
6 Computing codes
7 Other representations
8 References
9 External links
History
Egyptian hieroglyph Phoenician
lamedh Etruscan L Greek
Lambda
S39
PhoenicianL-01.svg EtruscanL-01.svg Lambda uc lc.svg
Lamedh may have come from a pictogram of an ox goad or cattle prod. Some have suggested a shepherd's staff.[2]
Use in writing systems
Phonetic and phonemic transcription
In phonetic and phonemic transcription, the International Phonetic Alphabet uses ⟨l⟩ to represent the lateral alveolar approximant.
English
In English orthography, ⟨l⟩ usually represents the phoneme /l/, which can have several sound values, depending on whether it occurs before or after a vowel. The alveolar lateral approximant (the sound represented in IPA by lowercase [l]) occurs before a vowel, as in lip or blend, while the velarized alveolar lateral approximant (IPA [ɫ]) occurs in bell and milk. This velarization does not occur in many European languages that use ⟨l⟩; it is also a factor making the pronunciation of ⟨l⟩ difficult for users of languages that lack ⟨l⟩ or have different values for it, such as Japanese or some southern dialects of Chinese. A medical condition or speech impediment restricting the pronunciation of ⟨l⟩ is known as lambdacism.
In English orthography, ⟨l⟩ is often silent in such words as walk or could (though its presence can modify the preceding vowel letter's sound), and it is usually silent in such words as palm and psalm; however, there is some regional variation.
Other languages
⟨l⟩ usually represents the sound [l] or some other lateral consonant.
Common digraphs include ⟨ll⟩, which has a value identical to ⟨l⟩ in English, but has the separate value voiceless alveolar lateral fricative (IPA [ɬ]) in Welsh, where it can appear in an initial position. In Spanish, ⟨ll⟩ represents [ʎ], [j], [ʝ], [ɟʝ], or [ʃ], depending on dialect.
A palatal lateral approximant or palatal ⟨l⟩ (IPA [ʎ]) occurs in many languages, and is represented by ⟨gli⟩ in Italian, ⟨ll⟩ in Spanish and Catalan, ⟨lh⟩ in Portuguese, and ⟨ļ⟩ in Latvian.
Other uses
The capital letter L is used as the currency sign for the Albanian lek and the Honduran lempira. It was often used, especially in handwriting, as the currency sign for the Italian lira. It is also infrequently used as a substitute for the pound sign (£), which is based on it.
The Roman numeral Ⅼ represents the number 50.[3]
Forms and variants
"ℓ" redirects here. For the azimuthal quantum number, see azimuthal quantum number.
In some fonts, the lowercase letter ⟨l⟩ may be difficult to distinguish from the digit one, ⟨1⟩, or an uppercase letter ⟨I⟩. In recent times, many new fonts have curved the lowercase form to the right, and it is increasingly common, especially on European road signs and advertisements. A more modern version based on the handwritten letter-like ⟨ℓ⟩ is sometimes used in mathematics and elsewhere. In Japan, for example, this is the symbol for the liter. Its LaTeX command is \ell, its codepoint is U+2113, and its numeric character reference is "ℓ".
Related characters
Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
IPA-specific symbols related to L: ʟ ɫ ɬ ɭ ɺ ɮ ꞎ ˡ
Uralic Phonetic Alphabet-specific symbols related to L:[4] U+1D0C ᴌ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L WITH STROKE and U+1D38 ᴸ MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL L
ₗ : Subscript small l was used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet prior to its formal standardization in 1902[5]
ȴ : L with curl is used in Sino-Tibetanist linguistics[6]
Ꞁ ꞁ : Turned L was used by William Pryce to designate the Welsh voiced lateral spirant [ɬ][7]
Other variations are used for phonetic transcription:[8] ᶅ ᶩ ᶪ ᶫ
Ꝇ ꝇ : Broken L was used in some medieval Nordic manuscripts[9]
Teuthonista phonetic transcription-specific symbols related to R:[10]
U+AB37 ꬷ LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH INVERTED LAZY S
U+AB38 ꬸ LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH DOUBLE MIDDLE TILDE
U+AB39 ꬹ LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH MIDDLE RING
U+AB5D ꭝ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH INVERTED LAZY S
U+AB5E ꭞ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH MIDDLE TILDE
L with diacritics: Ĺ ĺ Ł ł Ľ ľ Ḹ ḹ L̃ l̃ Ļ ļ Ŀ ŀ Ḷ ḷ Ḻ ḻ Ḽ ḽ Ƚ ƚ Ⱡ ⱡ
Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations
ℒ ℓ : Script letter L (capital and lowercase, respectively)
£ : pound sign
₤ : lira sign
Ꝉ ꝉ : Forms of L were used for medieval scribal abbreviations[11]
Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
𐤋 : Semitic letter Lamedh, from which the following symbols originally derive
Λ λ : Greek letter Lambda, from which the following letters derive
Л л : Cyrillic letter El
Ⲗⲗ : Coptic letter Lamda
𐌋 : Old Italic letter L, which is the ancestor of modern Latin L
ᛚ : Runic letter laguz, which probably derives from old Italic L
𐌻 : Gothic letter laaz
Computing codes
Character L l
Unicode name latin capital letter l latin small letter l
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 76 U+004C 108 U+006C
UTF-8 76 4C 108 6C
Numeric character reference L L l l
EBCDIC family 211 D3 147 93
ASCII 1 76 4C 108 6C
1 Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Other representations
NATO phonetic Morse code
Lima ·–··
ICS Lima.svg Semaphore Lima.svg Sign language L.svg ⠇
Signal flag Flag semaphore American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspelling) Braille
dots-123
References
Jump up ^ "L" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989) Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged. (1993); "el", "ells", op. cit.
Jump up ^ "Ancient Hebrew Research Center". Retrieved 12 January 2015.
Jump up ^ Gordon, Arthur E. (1983). Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy. University of California Press. p. 44. ISBN 9780520038981. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
Jump up ^ Everson, Michael; et al. (2002-03-20). "L2/02-141: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Ruppel, Klaas; Aalto, Tero; Everson, Michael (2009-01-27). "L2/09-028: Proposal to encode additional characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Cook, Richard; Everson, Michael (2001-09-20). "L2/01-347: Proposal to add six phonetic characters to the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Everson, Michael (2006-08-06). "L2/06-266: Proposal to add Latin letters and a Greek symbol to the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Constable, Peter (2004-04-19). "L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Emiliano, António; Grammel, Florian; Haugen, Odd Einar; Luft, Diana; Pedro, Susana; Schumacher, Gerd; Stötzner, Andreas (2006-01-30). "L2/06-027: Proposal to add Medievalist characters to the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Everson, Michael; Dicklberger, Alois; Pentzlin, Karl; Wandl-Vogt, Eveline (2011-06-02). "L2/11-202: Revised proposal to encode "Teuthonista" phonetic characters in the UCS" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Emiliano, António; Grammel, Florian; Haugen, Odd Einar; Luft, Diana; Pedro, Susana; Schumacher, Gerd; Stötzner, Andreas (2006-01-30). "L2/06-027: Proposal to add Medievalist characters to the UCS" (PDF).
External links
The dictionary definition of L at Wiktionary
The dictionary definition of l at Wiktionary
The dictionary definition of ℓ at Wiktionary
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Letter L with diacritics
Ĺĺ Ľľ Ļļ Ḷḷ Ḹḹ L̃l̃ Ḽḽ Ḻḻ Łł Ŀŀ Ƚƚ Ꝉꝉ Ⱡⱡ Ɫɫ Ɬɬ ꞎ ꬷ ꬸ ꬹ ᶅ ɭ ȴ
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