Talk:El (Cyrillic)

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font to show alternate form[edit]

My Garamond font does not contain Cyrillic letters, and so the "alternate form" looked the same as the regular form. I added 'Gill Sans' to the font-family list. Other fonts may need to be added as others find that the "alternate form" displays the same as the regular form. —Coroboy (talk) 06:25, 19 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pronounciation of letters in Cyrillic[edit]

In predominantly Slavic countries, that use Cyrillic alphabet, right pronounciation goes A-Be-Ve-Ge-De... (А,Б,В,Г,Д...) and not A-Bee-Cee-Dee... (A,B,V,G,D...) like in Latin alphabet. In this case, letter "Л" is pronounced "Le" and not "El". This should be corrected/applied to all letters. It sounds like it's written. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.226.240.62 (talk) 23:11, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In Russian, the names of many of the letters are pronounced in the pattern Be-Ve-Ge-De, but not all. See, for example:

Ager, Simon (ed.). "Russian (Русский язык)". Omniglot: Writing systems & languages of the world. Retrieved 2011-07-09. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
ru:Л

Can you provide references to published sources for other names of the letter ‹Л›? —Coroboy (talk) 11:30, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In Russian pronunciation of Л as Le is highly informal and also incorrect, only the children or non-educated adolescences pronounce it like Le, the only standard of the name of Л in Russian is Эль (El).--Orange-kun (talk) 14:56, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"An alternate form of the letter El more closely resembles the Greek letter Lambda"[edit]

However, that applies only to upper-case, right? (I don't think the Cyrillic ever resembles Greek lower-case λ...) AnonMoos (talk) 17:07, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]