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Usage | |
Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic and logographic |
Language of origin | Latin language |
Phonetic usage | /ɛl/ |
Unicode codepoint | U+004C, U+006C |
Alphabetical position | 12 |
History | |
Development | |
Time period | ~−700 to present |
Descendants | • ɮ • Ꝇ ꝇ • ℒ ℓ • £ • Ł • ᛚ • ꬸ • L |
Sisters | Л Љ Ӆ Ԯ ל ل ܠ ⵍ ࠋ 𐡋 ለ ℓ |
Other | |
Other letters commonly used with | l(x), lj, ll, ly |
Writing direction | Left-to-right |
ISO basic Latin alphabet |
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L, or l, is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is el (pronounced /ˈɛl/ EL), plural els.
Egyptian hieroglyph | Phoenician lamedh |
Western Greek Lambda |
Etruscan L |
Latin L | ||
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Lamedh may have come from a pictogram of an ox goad or cattle prod. Some have suggested a shepherd's staff.
In most sans-serif typefaces, the lowercase letter ell ⟨l⟩, written l, may be difficult to distinguish from the uppercase letter "eye" ⟨I⟩; in some serif typefaces, the glyph l may be confused with the glyph 1, the digit one. To avoid such confusion, some newer computer fonts (such as Trebuchet MS) have a finial, a curve to the right at the bottom of the lowercase letter ell.
Another means of reducing such confusion is to use symbol ℓ, which is a cursive, handwriting-style lowercase form of the letter "ell"; this form is seen in European road signs and advertisements. In Japan, for example, this is the symbol for the liter. (The International Committee for Weights and Measures recommends using L or l for the liter, without specifying a typeface.) In Unicode, the cursive form is encoded as U+2113 ℓ SCRIPT SMALL L from the "letter-like symbols" block. Unicode encodes an explicit symbol as U+1D4C1 𝓁 MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL L. The TeX syntax <math>\ell</math> renders it as . In mathematical formulas, an italic form (ℓ) of the script ℓ is the norm.
Sometimes seen in Web typography, a serif font for the lowercase letter ell, such as l, in otherwise sans-serif text was used.
In the blackletter type used in England until the seventeenth century, the letter L is rendered as .
Orthography | Phonemes |
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Standard Chinese (Pinyin) | /l/ |
English | /l/, silent |
French | /l/, silent |
German | /l/ |
Portuguese | /l/ |
Spanish | /l/ |
Turkish | /l/, /ɫ/ |
In English orthography, ⟨l⟩ usually represents the phoneme /l/, which can have several sound values, depending on the speaker's accent, and whether it occurs before or after a vowel. In Received Pronunciation, the alveolar lateral approximant (the sound represented in IPA by lowercase ) occurs before a vowel, as in lip or blend, while the velarized alveolar lateral approximant (IPA ) 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 value), and it is usually silent in such words as palm and psalm; however, there is some regional variation. L is the eleventh most frequently used letter in the English language.
⟨l⟩ usually represents the sound 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 ) in Welsh, where it can appear in an initial position. In Spanish, ⟨ll⟩ represents /ʎ/ (, , , , or , depending on dialect).
A palatal lateral approximant or palatal ⟨l⟩ (IPA ) occurs in many languages, and is represented by ⟨gli⟩ in Italian, ⟨ll⟩ in Spanish and Catalan, ⟨lh⟩ in Portuguese, and ⟨ļ⟩ in Latvian.
In Turkish, ⟨l⟩ generally represents /l/, but represents /ɫ/ before ⟨a⟩, ⟨ı⟩, ⟨o⟩, or ⟨u⟩.
In Washo, lower-case ⟨l⟩ represents a typical sound, while upper-case ⟨L⟩ represents a voiceless sound, a bit like double ⟨ll⟩ in Welsh.
The International Phonetic Alphabet uses ⟨l⟩ to represent the voiced alveolar lateral approximant and a small caps ⟨ʟ⟩ to represent the voiced velar lateral approximant.
Preview | L | l | L | l | ||||
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Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L | LATIN SMALL LETTER L | FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L | FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER L | ||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 76 | U+004C | 108 | U+006C | 65324 | U+FF2C | 65356 | U+FF4C |
UTF-8 | 76 | 4C | 108 | 6C | 239 188 172 | EF BC AC | 239 189 140 | EF BD 8C |
Numeric character reference | L |
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EBCDIC family | 211 | D3 | 147 | 93 | ||||
ASCII 1 | 76 | 4C | 108 | 6C |
NATO phonetic | Morse code |
Lima |
Signal flag | Flag semaphore | American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspelling) | British manual alphabet (BSL fingerspelling) | Braille dots-123 Unified English Braille |
The litre, and the symbol lower-case l, were adopted by the CIPM in 1879 (PV, 1879, 41). The alternative symbol, capital L, was adopted by the 16th CGPM (1979, Resolution 6; CR, 101 and Metrologia, 1980, 16, 56-57) in order to avoid the risk of confusion between the letter l (el) and the numeral 1 (one).
roman numerals.
Par tradition ancestrale, les horlogers n'utilisent pas le millimètre mais la ligne pour désigner le diamètre d'encageage d'un mouvement.[By ancestral tradition, watchmakers do not use the millimeter but the line to designate the casing diameter of a movement]