El (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic letter El
Ꙕ		Ю̂			Ꙗ
Я̈	Я̂	Я̨	Ԙ	Ѥ	Ѧ	Ꙙ	Ѫ
Ꙛ	Ѩ	Ꙝ	Ѭ	Ѯ	Ѱ	Ѳ	Ѵ
Ѷ	Ꙟ

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El (Л л or Ʌ ʌ; italics Л л or Л л or Ʌ ʌ; italics: Л л or Ʌ ʌ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

El commonly represents the

In some typefaces the Cyrillic letter El has a grapheme which may be confused with the Cyrillic letter Pe (Пп). Note that Pe has a straight left leg, without the hook. An alternative form of El (Ʌ ʌ) is more common in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbian.

History

The Cyrillic letter El was derived from the Greek letter lambda (Λ λ).

In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was людиѥ (ljudije), meaning "people".^[1]

In the Cyrillic numeral system, Л had a value of 30.

Forms

El has two forms: one form resembles Greek capital Lambda (Ʌ ʌ), and the other form resembles the Hebrew letter ת (Л л).

Pronunciation

As used in the alphabets of various languages, El represents the following sounds:

• alveolar lateral approximant
  /l/, like the pronunciation of ⟨l⟩ in "lip"
• palatalized
  alveolar lateral approximant
  /lʲ/
• velarized alveolar lateral approximant
  /ɫ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨l⟩ in "bell" and "milk"
• Labiovelar approximant
  /w/, like the ⟨w⟩ in "water"
• voiced alveolar lateral fricative
  /ɮ/ and its palatalized equivalent /ɮʲ/

The /l/ phoneme in Slavic languages has two realizations: hard ([l], [

Slavic languages except Serbian and Macedonian use another orthographic convention to distinguish between hard and soft /l/, so ⟨Л⟩ can denote either variant depending on the subsequent letter.

The pronunciations shown in the table are the primary ones for each language.

In addition, л was formerly used in

Related letters and other similar characters

• Λ λ :
  Greek letter Lambda
• Љ љ :
  Cyrillic letter Lje
• Ӆ ӆ :
  Cyrillic letter El with tail
• Ԓ ԓ :
  Cyrillic letter El with hook
• Ԯ ԯ :
  Cyrillic letter El with descender
• L l : Latin letter L
• Ł ł : Latin letter L with stroke
• ת : Hebrew letter Taw

Computing codes

Use in mathematics

El is sometimes used to represent the Clausen function, and if not, the capital greek letter Lambda is.

External links

• The dictionary definition of Л at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of л at Wiktionary

References