El (Cyrillic)
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| Cyrillic letter El | ||||||
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| Cyrillic numerals: 30 | ||||||
| Unicode (hex) | ||||||
| majuscule: U+041B | ||||||
| minuscule: U+043B | ||||||
| Cyrillic script Slavic letters |
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| А | Б | В | Г | Ґ | Д | Ђ |
| Ѓ | Е | Ѐ | Ё | Є | Ж | З |
| Ѕ | И | Ѝ | І | Ї | Й | Ј |
| К | Л | Љ | М | Н | Њ | О |
| П | Р | С | Т | Ћ | Ќ | У |
| Ў | Ф | Х | Ц | Ч | Џ | Ш |
| Щ | Ъ | Ы | Ь | Э | Ю | Я |
| Non-Slavic letters | ||||||
| Ӑ | Ӓ | Ә | Ӛ | Ӕ | Ғ | Ҕ |
| Ӻ | Ӷ | Ԁ | Ԃ | Ꚉ | Ӗ | Ӂ |
| Җ | Ӝ | Ԅ | Ҙ | Ӟ | Ԑ | Ӡ |
| Ԇ | Ӣ | Ҋ | Ӥ | Қ | Ӄ | Ҡ |
| Ҟ | Ҝ | Ԟ | Ԛ | Ӆ | Ԓ | Ԡ |
| Ԉ | Ԕ | Ӎ | Ӊ | Ң | Ӈ | Ҥ |
| Ԣ | Ԋ | Ӧ | Ө | Ӫ | Ҩ | Ԥ |
| Ҧ | Ҏ | Ԗ | Ҫ | Ԍ | Ҭ | Ԏ |
| Ӯ | Ӱ | Ӳ | Ү | Ұ | Ҳ | Ӽ |
| Ӿ | Һ | Ԧ | Ҵ | Ҷ | Ӵ | Ӌ |
| Ҹ | Ꚇ | Ҽ | Ҿ | Ӹ | Ҍ | Ӭ |
| Ԙ | Ԝ | Ӏ | ||||
| Archaic letters | ||||||
| Ҁ | Ѻ | Ѹ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ѣ | Ꙓ |
| Ꙗ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ |
| Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ | Ѷ | Ꙟ | ||
| List of Cyrillic letters | ||||||
| Cyrillic digraphs | ||||||
El (Л л; italics: Л л) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
El commonly represents the alveolar lateral approximant /l/, like the pronunciation of ⟨l⟩ in "lip".
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[edit] Form
The Cyrillic letter El is not to be confused with the Cyrillic letter Pe (П п; italics: П п), which has a straight left leg, without the hook. An alternate form of the letter El (Л л; italics: Л л), more closely resembles the Greek letter Lambda (Λ λ).
[edit] 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".
In the Cyrillic numeral system, El had a value of 30.
[edit] Usage
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"
The pronunciations shown in the table are the primary ones for each language; for details consult the articles on the languages.
| Language | Position in alphabet |
Pronunciation |
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| Belarusian | 13th | /l/, /lʲ/ |
| Bulgarian | 12th | /l~ɫ/, /lʲ/ |
| Macedonian | 14th | /l/ |
| Russian | 13th | /l/, /lʲ/ |
| Serbian | 13th | /l/ |
| Ukrainian | 16th | /l/, /lʲ/ |
[edit] Related letters and other similar characters
- Λ λ : Greek letter Lambda
- ח : Hebrew letter Heth
- Ӆ ӆ : Cyrillic letter El with tail
- Ԓ ԓ : Cyrillic letter El with hook
- П п : Cyrillic letter Pe
- L l : Latin letter L
- Ł ł : Latin letter L with stroke
[edit] Computing codes
| character | Л | л | ||
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EL | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EL | ||
| character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 1051 | 041B | 1083 | 043B |
| UTF-8 | 208 155 | D0 9B | 208 187 | D0 BB |
| Numeric character reference | Л | Л | л | л |
| KOI8-R and KOI8-U | 236 | EC | 204 | CC |
| Code page 855 | 209 | D1 | 208 | D0 |
| Code page 866 | 139 | 8B | 171 | AB |
| Windows-1251 | 203 | CB | 235 | EB |
| ISO-8859-5 | 187 | BB | 219 | DB |
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 139 | 8B | 235 | EB |
[edit] External links
The Wiktionary entry for Л- The Wiktionary entry for л
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