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class="vector-toc-link" href="#Descendants_and_related_characters_in_the_Latin_alphabet"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Descendants_and_related_characters_in_the_Latin_alphabet-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Derived_signs,_symbols_and_abbreviations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Derived_signs,_symbols_and_abbreviations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Derived_signs,_symbols_and_abbreviations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ancestors_and_siblings_in_other_alphabets" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ancestors_and_siblings_in_other_alphabets"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ancestors_and_siblings_in_other_alphabets-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_representations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_representations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Other representations</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Other_representations-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Other representations subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Other_representations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Computing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Computing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Computing</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Computing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Other</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label 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Available in 143 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-143" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">143 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ace mw-list-item"><a href="https://ace.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Acehnese" lang="ace" hreflang="ace" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Acèh" data-language-local-name="Acehnese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Acèh</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Afrikaans</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-smn mw-list-item"><a href="https://smn.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Inari Sami" lang="smn" hreflang="smn" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Anarâškielâ" data-language-local-name="Inari Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Anarâškielâ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ænglisc</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arc mw-list-item"><a href="https://arc.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Aramaic" lang="arc" hreflang="arc" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="ܐܪܡܝܐ" data-language-local-name="Aramaic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ܐܪܡܝܐ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_(%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0)" title="L (літара) – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="L (літара)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_(%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0)" title="L (літара) – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="L (літара)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sn mw-list-item"><a href="https://sn.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Shona" lang="sn" hreflang="sn" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="ChiShona" data-language-local-name="Shona" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ChiShona</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Corsu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Davvisámegiella" data-language-local-name="Northern Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Davvisámegiella</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Emiliàn e rumagnòl" data-language-local-name="Emiliano-Romagnolo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Emiliàn e rumagnòl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_(lettre)" title="L (lettre) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="L (lettre)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fur mw-list-item"><a href="https://fur.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Friulian" lang="fur" hreflang="fur" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Furlan" data-language-local-name="Friulian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Furlan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>贛語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xal mw-list-item"><a href="https://xal.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_%D2%AF%D0%B7%D0%B3" title="L үзг – Kalmyk" lang="xal" hreflang="xal" data-title="L үзг" data-language-autonym="Хальмг" data-language-local-name="Kalmyk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Хальмг</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_(%D5%AC%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6)" title="L (լատինական) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="L (լատինական)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B2" title="एल – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="एल" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gor mw-list-item"><a href="https://gor.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Gorontalo" lang="gor" hreflang="gor" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Hulontalo" data-language-local-name="Gorontalo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Hulontalo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ig mw-list-item"><a href="https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Igbo" lang="ig" hreflang="ig" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Igbo" data-language-local-name="Igbo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Igbo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-csb mw-list-item"><a href="https://csb.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Kashubian" lang="csb" hreflang="csb" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Kaszëbsczi" data-language-local-name="Kashubian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kaszëbsczi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kv mw-list-item"><a href="https://kv.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Komi" lang="kv" hreflang="kv" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Коми" data-language-local-name="Komi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Коми</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_(t%C3%AEp)" title="L (tîp) – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="L (tîp)" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%8E%E0%B5%BD_(%E0%B4%87%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%82)" title="എൽ (ഇംഗ്ലീഷക്ഷരം) – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="എൽ (ഇംഗ്ലീഷക്ഷരം)" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%A1%E1%80%9A%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9C%E1%80%BA_(%E1%80%A1%E1%80%80%E1%80%B9%E1%80%81%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AC)" title="အယ်လ် (အက္ခရာ) – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="အယ်လ် (အက္ခရာ)" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nah mw-list-item"><a href="https://nah.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Nahuatl" lang="nah" hreflang="nah" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Nāhuatl" data-language-local-name="Nahuatl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nāhuatl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fj mw-list-item"><a href="https://fj.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Fijian" lang="fj" hreflang="fj" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Na Vosa Vakaviti" data-language-local-name="Fijian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Na Vosa Vakaviti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_(letter)" title="L (letter) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="L (letter)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_(buksteew)" title="L (buksteew) – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="L (buksteew)" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nrm mw-list-item"><a href="https://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Norman" lang="nrf" hreflang="nrf" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Nouormand" data-language-local-name="Norman" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nouormand</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mhr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mhr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_(%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%88%D1%82%D0%B5)" title="L (латин тиште) – Eastern Mari" lang="mhr" hreflang="mhr" data-title="L (латин тиште)" data-language-autonym="Олык марий" data-language-local-name="Eastern Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Олык марий</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_(lotin)" title="L (lotin) – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="L (lotin)" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%90%E0%A8%B2_(%E0%A8%85%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%97%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BC%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%85%E0%A9%B1%E0%A8%96%E0%A8%B0)" title="ਐਲ (ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਅੱਖਰ) – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਐਲ (ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਅੱਖਰ)" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Qırımtatarca" data-language-local-name="Crimean Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qırımtatarca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-stq mw-list-item"><a href="https://stq.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Saterland Frisian" lang="stq" hreflang="stq" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Seeltersk" data-language-local-name="Saterland Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Seeltersk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tn mw-list-item"><a href="https://tn.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Tswana" lang="tn" hreflang="tn" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Setswana" data-language-local-name="Tswana" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Setswana</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-so mw-list-item"><a href="https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_(alifbeet)" title="L (alifbeet) – Somali" lang="so" hreflang="so" data-title="L (alifbeet)" data-language-autonym="Soomaaliga" data-language-local-name="Somali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Soomaaliga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/L" title="L – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="L" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-srn mw-list-item"><a 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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/L_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="L (disambiguation)">L (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/%C7%80" class="mw-redirect" title="ǀ">ǀ</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output 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typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Latin_letter_L.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Latin_letter_L.svg/220px-Latin_letter_L.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Latin_letter_L.svg/330px-Latin_letter_L.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Latin_letter_L.svg/440px-Latin_letter_L.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="300" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:lightblue; color:black; font-variant/style: ;">Usage</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Writing system</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Latin_script" title="Latin script">Latin script</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alphabet" title="Alphabet">Alphabetic</a> and <a 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inline-block"><a href="/wiki/F" title="F">Ff</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/G" title="G">Gg</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/H" title="H">Hh</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/I" title="I">Ii</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/J" title="J">Jj</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/K" title="K">Kk</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ll</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/M" title="M">Mm</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/N" title="N">Nn</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/O" title="O">Oo</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/P" title="P">Pp</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/Q" title="Q">Qq</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/R" title="R">Rr</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/S" title="S">Ss</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/T" title="T">Tt</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/U" title="U">Uu</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/V" title="V">Vv</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/W" title="W">Ww</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/X" title="X">Xx</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/Y" title="Y">Yy</a></span><span style="width: 3em; text-align: center; display: inline-block"><a href="/wiki/Z" title="Z">Zz</a></span></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Latin_alphabet_sidebar" title="Template:Latin alphabet sidebar"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Latin_alphabet_sidebar" title="Template talk:Latin alphabet sidebar"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Latin_alphabet_sidebar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Latin alphabet sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>L</b>, or <b>l</b>, is the twelfth <a href="/wiki/Letter_(alphabet)" title="Letter (alphabet)">letter</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Latin_alphabet" title="Latin alphabet">Latin alphabet</a>, used in the <a href="/wiki/English_alphabet" title="English alphabet">modern English alphabet</a>, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is <a href="/wiki/English_alphabet#Letter_names" title="English alphabet"><i>el</i></a> (pronounced <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">EL</span></i></a>), plural <i>els</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Egyptian <a href="/wiki/Hieroglyph" class="mw-redirect" title="Hieroglyph">hieroglyph</a> </th> <th>Phoenician<br /><a href="/wiki/Lamedh" title="Lamedh">lamedh</a> </th> <th>Western Greek<br /><a href="/wiki/Lambda" title="Lambda">Lambda</a> </th> <th>Etruscan<br />L </th> <th>Latin <br />L </th></tr> <tr align="center"> <td><table class="mw-hiero-table mw-hiero-outer" dir="ltr"><tbody><tr><td> <table class="mw-hiero-table"><tbody><tr> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_S39.png?fc40e" height="38" title="S39" alt="S39" /></td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td> <td><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PhoenicianL-01.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/PhoenicianL-01.svg/25px-PhoenicianL-01.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/PhoenicianL-01.svg/38px-PhoenicianL-01.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/PhoenicianL-01.svg/50px-PhoenicianL-01.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="400" /></a></span> </td> <td><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Greek_Lambda_09.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Greek_Lambda_09.svg/28px-Greek_Lambda_09.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="35" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Greek_Lambda_09.svg/43px-Greek_Lambda_09.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Greek_Lambda_09.svg/57px-Greek_Lambda_09.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="43" data-file-height="53" /></a></span> </td> <td><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:EtruscanL-01.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/EtruscanL-01.svg/18px-EtruscanL-01.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/EtruscanL-01.svg/27px-EtruscanL-01.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/EtruscanL-01.svg/36px-EtruscanL-01.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="130" data-file-height="180" /></a></span> </td> <td><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Capitalis_monumentalis_L.SVG" class="mw-file-description" title="Latin L"><img alt="Latin L" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Capitalis_monumentalis_L.SVG/18px-Capitalis_monumentalis_L.SVG.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Capitalis_monumentalis_L.SVG/28px-Capitalis_monumentalis_L.SVG.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Capitalis_monumentalis_L.SVG/37px-Capitalis_monumentalis_L.SVG.png 2x" data-file-width="34" data-file-height="55" /></a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Lamedh may have come from a pictogram of an ox <a href="/wiki/Goad" title="Goad">goad</a> or <a href="/wiki/Cattle_prod" title="Cattle prod">cattle prod</a>. Some have suggested that it represents a shepherd's staff.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Typographic_variants">Typographic variants</h3></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="ℓ"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"ℓ" redirects here. For the azimuthal quantum number, see <a href="/wiki/Azimuthal_quantum_number" title="Azimuthal quantum number">Azimuthal quantum number</a>.</div> <p>In most <a href="/wiki/Sans-serif" title="Sans-serif">sans-serif</a> typefaces, the lowercase letter <i>ell</i> <span class="nowrap">⟨l⟩</span>, written as the <a href="/wiki/Glyph" title="Glyph">glyph</a> <span style="font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">l</span></span>, may be difficult to distinguish from the uppercase letter "eye" <span class="nowrap">⟨<a href="/wiki/I" title="I">I</a>⟩</span> (written as the glyph <span style="font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">I</span></span>); in some <a href="/wiki/Serif" title="Serif">serif</a> typefaces, the glyph <span class="serif-fonts" style="font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Times, 'Times New Roman', FreeSerif, 'DejaVu Math TeX', 'URW Bookman L', serif;"><span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">l</span></span> may be confused with the glyph <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">1</span>, the digit <i><a href="/wiki/1_(number)" class="mw-redirect" title="1 (number)">one</a></i>. To avoid such confusion, some newer <a href="/wiki/Computer_font" title="Computer font">computer fonts</a> (such as <a href="/wiki/Trebuchet_MS" title="Trebuchet MS">Trebuchet MS</a>) have a <a href="/wiki/Finial_(typography)" class="mw-redirect" title="Finial (typography)">finial</a>, a curve to the right at the bottom of the lowercase letter <i>ell</i>. Other style variants are provided in <a href="/wiki/Script_typeface" title="Script typeface">script typefaces</a> and <a href="/wiki/Display_typeface" title="Display typeface">display typefaces</a>. All these variants of the letter are encoded in Unicode as <span class="nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">U+004C</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">L</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L</span> or <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+006C</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">l</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LATIN SMALL LETTER L</span>, allowing presentation to be chosen according to each context. For specialist mathematical and scientific use, there are a number of dedicated <a href="/wiki/Codepoint" class="mw-redirect" title="Codepoint">codepoints</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symbols_block" class="mw-redirect" title="Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block">Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block</a>. </p><p>Another means of reducing such confusion is to use symbol <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">ℓ</span>, which is a <a href="/wiki/Cursive" title="Cursive">cursive</a>, handwriting-style lowercase form of the letter "ell". In Japan and Korea, for example, this is the symbol for the <a href="/wiki/Litre" title="Litre">liter</a>. (The <a href="/wiki/International_Committee_for_Weights_and_Measures" class="mw-redirect" title="International Committee for Weights and Measures">International Committee for Weights and Measures</a> recommends using <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;"><span class="serif-fonts" style="font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Times, 'Times New Roman', FreeSerif, 'DejaVu Math TeX', 'URW Bookman L', serif;">L</span></span> or <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;"><span class="serif-fonts" style="font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Times, 'Times New Roman', FreeSerif, 'DejaVu Math TeX', 'URW Bookman L', serif;">l</span></span> for the liter,<sup id="cite_ref-BIPM2006-brochure_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BIPM2006-brochure-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> without specifying a typeface.) In <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a>, the cursive form is encoded as <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2113</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ℓ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SCRIPT SMALL L</span> from the "<a href="/wiki/Letterlike_Symbols_(Unicode_block)" class="mw-redirect" title="Letterlike Symbols (Unicode block)">letter-like symbols</a>" block. Unicode encodes an explicit symbol as <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+1D4C1</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">𝓁</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL L</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/TeX" title="TeX">TeX</a> syntax <span style="font-family:monospace"><math>\ell</math></span> renders it as <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \ell }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>ℓ</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \ell }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f066e981e530bacc07efc6a10fa82deee985929e" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:0.97ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \ell }"></span>. In mathematical formulas, an italic form (<i><span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">ℓ</span></i>) of the script ℓ is the norm. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Use_in_writing_systems">Use in writing systems</h2></div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible"> <caption>Pronunciation of <span class="nowrap">⟨l⟩</span> by language </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Orthography </th> <th>Phonemes </th></tr> <tr> <th><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Chinese</a></span> (<a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">Pinyin</a>) </th> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar lateral approximant">l</a>/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/English_orthography" title="English orthography">English</a> </th> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar lateral approximant">l</a>/</span>, <i>silent</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/French_orthography" title="French orthography">French</a> </th> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar lateral approximant">l</a>/</span>, <i>silent</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/German_orthography" title="German orthography">German</a> </th> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar lateral approximant">l</a>/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_orthography" title="Portuguese orthography">Portuguese</a> </th> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar lateral approximant">l</a>/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Spanish_orthography" title="Spanish orthography">Spanish</a> </th> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar lateral approximant">l</a>/</span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Turkish_alphabet" title="Turkish alphabet">Turkish</a> </th> <td><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar lateral approximant">l</a>/</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Velarized_alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Velarized alveolar lateral approximant">ɫ</a>/</span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="English">English</h3></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/English_orthography" title="English orthography">English orthography</a>, <span class="nowrap">⟨l⟩</span> usually represents the phoneme <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span></span>/</a></span></span>, which can have several sound values, depending on the speaker's accent, and whether it occurs before or after a vowel. In <a href="/wiki/Received_Pronunciation" title="Received Pronunciation">Received Pronunciation</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Alveolar lateral approximant">alveolar lateral approximant</a> (the sound represented in <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a> by lowercase <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[l]</span>) occurs before a vowel, as in <i>lip</i> or <i>blend</i>, while the <a href="/wiki/Velarized_alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Velarized alveolar lateral approximant">velarized alveolar lateral approximant</a> (IPA <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɫ]</span>) occurs in <i>bell</i> and <i>milk</i>. This velarization does not occur in many European languages that use <span class="nowrap">⟨l⟩</span>; it is also a factor making the pronunciation of <span class="nowrap">⟨l⟩</span> difficult for users of languages that lack <span class="nowrap">⟨l⟩</span> or have different values for it, such as <a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a> or some southern dialects of <a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a>. A medical condition or speech impediment restricting the pronunciation of <span class="nowrap">⟨l⟩</span> is known as <a href="/wiki/Lambdacism" class="mw-redirect" title="Lambdacism">lambdacism</a>. </p><p>In English orthography, <span class="nowrap">⟨l⟩</span> is often silent in such words as <i>walk</i> or <i>could</i> (though its presence can modify the preceding vowel letter's value), and it is usually silent in such words as <i>palm</i> and <i>psalm</i>; however, there is some regional variation. L is the <a href="/wiki/Letter_frequency" title="Letter frequency">eleventh most frequently used letter</a> in the English language. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_languages">Other languages</h3></div> <p><span class="nowrap">⟨l⟩</span> usually represents the sound <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[l]</span> or some other <a href="/wiki/Lateral_consonant" title="Lateral consonant">lateral consonant</a>. Common digraphs include <span class="nowrap">⟨ll⟩</span>, which has a value identical to <span class="nowrap">⟨l⟩</span> in English, but has the separate value <a href="/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_lateral_fricative" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative">voiceless alveolar lateral fricative</a> (IPA <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɬ]</span>) in <a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a>, where it can appear in an initial position. In Spanish, <span class="nowrap">⟨ll⟩</span> represents <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ʎ/</span> (<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ʎ]</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[j]</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ʝ]</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɟʝ]</span>, or <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ʃ]</span>, depending on dialect). </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Palatal_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Palatal lateral approximant">palatal lateral approximant</a> or palatal <span class="nowrap">⟨l⟩</span> (IPA <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ʎ]</span>) occurs in many languages, and is represented by <span class="nowrap">⟨gli⟩</span> in <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>, <span class="nowrap">⟨ll⟩</span> in <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> and <a href="/wiki/Catalan_language" title="Catalan language">Catalan</a>, <span class="nowrap">⟨lh⟩</span> in <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a>, and <span class="nowrap">⟨ļ⟩</span> in <a href="/wiki/Latvian_language" title="Latvian language">Latvian</a>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a>, <span class="nowrap">⟨l⟩</span> generally represents <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar lateral approximant">l</a>/</span>, but represents <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Velarized_alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Velarized alveolar lateral approximant">ɫ</a>/</span> before <span class="nowrap">⟨a⟩</span>, <span class="nowrap">⟨ı⟩</span>, <span class="nowrap">⟨o⟩</span>, or <span class="nowrap">⟨u⟩</span>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Washo_language" title="Washo language">Washo</a>, lower-case <span class="nowrap">⟨l⟩</span> represents a typical [l] sound, while upper-case <span class="nowrap">⟨L⟩</span> represents a <a href="/wiki/Voicelessness" title="Voicelessness">voiceless</a> [l̥] sound, a bit like double <span class="nowrap">⟨ll⟩</span> in <a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_systems">Other systems</h3></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">International Phonetic Alphabet</a> uses ⟨<span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa">l</span>⟩ to represent the <a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar lateral approximant">voiced alveolar lateral approximant</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Small_caps" title="Small caps">small cap</a> ⟨<span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa">ʟ</span>⟩ to represent the <a href="/wiki/Voiced_velar_lateral_approximant" title="Voiced velar lateral approximant">voiced velar lateral approximant</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_uses">Other uses</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/L_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="L (disambiguation)">L (disambiguation)</a></div> <ul><li>The capital letter L is used as the <a href="/wiki/Currency_sign" class="mw-redirect" title="Currency sign">currency sign</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Albanian_lek" title="Albanian lek">Albanian lek</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Honduran_lempira" title="Honduran lempira">Honduran lempira</a>. It was often used, especially in handwriting, as the currency sign for the <a href="/wiki/Italian_lira" title="Italian lira">Italian lira</a>. Historically, it was commonly used as a currency sign for the British <a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">pound sterling</a> (to abbreviate the Latin <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Carolingian_pound" title="Carolingian pound">libra</a></i></span>, a pound, see <a href="/wiki/%C2%A3sd" title="£sd">£sd</a>); in modern usage, it has been overtaken by the <a href="/wiki/Pound_sign" title="Pound sign">pound sign</a> (£), which is based on the blackletter form of the letter. In running text, its lower-case form (usually <a href="/wiki/Italics" class="mw-redirect" title="Italics">italicised</a>), <i><span style="font-family:serif">l</span></i>, was more often seen.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_numeral" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman numeral">Roman numeral</a> L represents the number <a href="/wiki/50_(number)" title="50 (number)">50</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Gordon_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gordon-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the <a href="/wiki/International_system_of_units" class="mw-redirect" title="International system of units">International system of units</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Liter" class="mw-redirect" title="Liter">liter</a> (or litre) is abbreviated using an upper-case (or a lower-case) L.<sup id="cite_ref-BIPM2006-brochure_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BIPM2006-brochure-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In watchmaking, the <a href="/wiki/Ligne" title="Ligne">ligne</a> (a traditional French measure of length still used in the industry) is abbreviated using an upper-case L.<sup id="cite_ref-Swiss_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Swiss-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In chemistry, L is used as a symbol for the <a href="/wiki/Avogadro_constant" title="Avogadro constant">Avogadro constant</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-iupac1996_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iupac1996-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Related_characters">Related characters</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output 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approximant">ʟ</a></span> <span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Velarized_alveolar_lateral_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Velarized alveolar lateral approximant">ɫ</a></span> <span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_lateral_fricative" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative">ɬ</a></span> <span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_retroflex_lateral_approximant" title="Voiced retroflex lateral approximant">ɭ</a></span> <span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_lateral_flap" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar lateral flap">ɺ</a></span> <span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_lateral_fricative" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar lateral fricative">ɮ</a></span> <span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Voiceless_retroflex_lateral_fricative" title="Voiceless retroflex lateral fricative">ꞎ</a></span> <span class="IPA" lang="und-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Lateral_release_(phonetics)" title="Lateral release (phonetics)">ˡ</a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Superscript_IPA" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA superscript symbols</a> related to L:<sup id="cite_ref-L220252_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L220252-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/%F0%90%9E%9B" class="mw-redirect" title="𐞛">𐞛</a> <a href="/wiki/%F0%90%9E%9C" class="mw-redirect" title="𐞜">𐞜</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extensions_to_the_International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet">Extensions to IPA</a> for disordered speech (extIPA):<sup id="cite_ref-L220116_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L220116-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-L221021_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L221021-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/%F0%9D%BC%84" class="mw-redirect" title="𝼄">𝼄</a> <a href="/wiki/%F0%90%9E%9D" class="mw-redirect" title="𐞝">𐞝</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uralic_Phonetic_Alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Uralic Phonetic Alphabet">Uralic Phonetic Alphabet</a>-specific symbols related to L:<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+1D0C</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ᴌ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L WITH STROKE</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+1D38</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ᴸ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL L</span></li></ul></li> <li>ₗ : Subscript small l was used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet prior to its formal standardization in 1902<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C8%B4" class="mw-redirect" title="ȴ">ȴ</a> : L with curl is used in Sino-Tibetanist linguistics<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Ꞁ ꞁ : Turned L was used by <a href="/wiki/William_Pryce" title="William Pryce">William Pryce</a> to designate the Welsh voiced lateral spirant [ɬ]<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The lower case is also used in the <a href="/wiki/Romic_alphabet" title="Romic alphabet">Romic alphabet</a>. In Unicode, these are <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+A780</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">Ꞁ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED L</span> and <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+A781</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ꞁ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED L</span>.</li> <li>𝼦 : Small letter l with mid-height left hook was used by the <a href="/wiki/British_and_Foreign_Bible_Society" title="British and Foreign Bible Society">British and Foreign Bible Society</a> in the early 20th century for <a href="/wiki/Romanization" title="Romanization">romanization</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Malayalam" title="Malayalam">Malayalam</a> language.<sup id="cite_ref-L221156_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L221156-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Other variations are used for phonetic transcription: <a href="/wiki/%E1%B6%85" class="mw-redirect" title="ᶅ">ᶅ</a><sup id="cite_ref-L204132_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L204132-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/%E1%B6%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="ᶩ">ᶩ</a><sup id="cite_ref-L204132_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L204132-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/%E1%B6%AA" class="mw-redirect" title="ᶪ">ᶪ</a><sup id="cite_ref-L204132_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L204132-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/%E1%B6%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="ᶫ">ᶫ</a><sup id="cite_ref-L204132_18-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L204132-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 𝼑<sup id="cite_ref-L220125_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L220125-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-L221021_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L221021-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 𝼓<sup id="cite_ref-L220125_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L220125-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-L221021_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L221021-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Ꝇ ꝇ : Broken L was used in some <a href="/wiki/North_Germanic_languages" title="North Germanic languages">medieval Nordic</a> manuscripts<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teuthonista" title="Teuthonista">Teuthonista</a> phonetic transcription-specific symbols related to L:<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+AB37</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ꬷ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH INVERTED LAZY S</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+AB38</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ꬸ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH DOUBLE MIDDLE TILDE</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+AB39</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ꬹ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH MIDDLE RING</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+AB5D</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ꭝ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH INVERTED LAZY S</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+AB5E</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ꭞ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH MIDDLE TILDE</span></li></ul></li> <li>L with <a href="/wiki/Diacritic" title="Diacritic">diacritics</a>: <a href="/wiki/%C4%B9" class="mw-redirect" title="Ĺ">Ĺ ĺ</a> <a href="/wiki/%C5%81" title="Ł">Ł ł</a> <a href="/wiki/%C4%BD" title="Ľ">Ľ ľ</a> <a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%B8" title="Ḹ">Ḹ ḹ</a> L̃ l̃ <a href="/wiki/Cedilla" title="Cedilla">Ļ ļ</a> <a href="/wiki/%C4%BF" class="mw-redirect" title="Ŀ">Ŀ ŀ</a> <a href="/wiki/Dot_(diacritic)" title="Dot (diacritic)">Ḷ ḷ</a> <a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%BA" class="mw-redirect" title="Ḻ">Ḻ ḻ</a> <a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%BC" class="mw-redirect" title="Ḽ">Ḽ ḽ</a> <a href="/wiki/%C8%BD" class="mw-redirect" title="Ƚ">Ƚ ƚ</a> <a href="/wiki/%E2%B1%A0" title="Ⱡ">Ⱡ ⱡ</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Derived_signs,_symbols_and_abbreviations"><span id="Derived_signs.2C_symbols_and_abbreviations"></span>Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations</h3></div> <ul><li>ℒ 𝓁 : <a href="/wiki/Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symbols" title="Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols">script letter</a> L (uppercase and lowercase, respectively), used in mathematics. (In other contexts, a <a href="/wiki/Script_typeface" title="Script typeface">script typeface</a> (or <a href="/wiki/Computer_font" title="Computer font">computer font</a>) should be used.)</li> <li>ℓ : mathematical symbol 'ell'; liter (traditional symbol)<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>£ : <a href="/wiki/Pound_sign" title="Pound sign">pound sign</a></li> <li>Ꝉ ꝉ : Forms of L were used for medieval <a href="/wiki/Scribal_abbreviation" title="Scribal abbreviation">scribal abbreviations</a><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%81" title="Ł">Ł</a> or ł, "L with stroke" used in Polish and many neighbouring languages</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ancestors_and_siblings_in_other_alphabets">Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets</h3></div> <ul><li><span title="Phoenician-language text"><span lang="phn" dir="rtl">𐤋</span></span> : <a href="/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet" title="Phoenician alphabet">Semitic</a> letter <a href="/wiki/Lamedh" title="Lamedh">Lamedh</a>, from which the following symbols originally derive <ul><li>Λ λ : <a href="/wiki/Greek_alphabet" title="Greek alphabet">Greek</a> letter <a href="/wiki/Lambda" title="Lambda">Lambda</a>, from which the following letters derive <ul><li>Л л : <a href="/wiki/Cyrillic" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyrillic">Cyrillic</a> letter <a href="/wiki/El_(Cyrillic)" title="El (Cyrillic)">El</a></li> <li>Ⲗⲗ : <a href="/wiki/Coptic_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Coptic alphabet">Coptic</a> letter Lamda</li> <li>𐌋 : <a href="/wiki/Old_Italic_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Italic script">Old Italic</a> letter L, which is the ancestor of modern Latin L <ul><li>ᛚ : <a href="/wiki/Runes" class="mw-redirect" title="Runes">Runic</a> letter laguz, which might derive from old Italic L</li></ul></li> <li>𐌻 : <a href="/wiki/Gothic_alphabet" title="Gothic alphabet">Gothic</a> letter laaz</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="Codes_for_computing"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_representations">Other representations</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Computing">Computing <span class="anchor" id="Computing_codes"></span></h3></div> <p>The Latin letters <span class="nowrap">⟨L⟩</span> and <span class="nowrap">⟨l⟩</span> have <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> encodings <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+004C</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">L</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L</span> and <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+006C</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">l</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LATIN SMALL LETTER L</span>. These are the same <a href="/wiki/Code_point" title="Code point">code points</a> as those used in <a href="/wiki/ASCII" title="ASCII">ASCII</a> and <a href="/wiki/ISO_8859" class="mw-redirect" title="ISO 8859">ISO 8859</a>. There are also <a href="/wiki/Precomposed_character" title="Precomposed character">precomposed character</a> encodings for <span class="nowrap">⟨L⟩</span> and <span class="nowrap">⟨l⟩</span> with diacritics, for most of those listed <a href="#Related_characters">above</a>; the remainder are produced using <a href="/wiki/Combining_diacritic" class="mw-redirect" title="Combining diacritic">combining diacritics</a>. </p><p>Variant forms of the letter have unique code points for specialist use: the <a href="/wiki/Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symbols" title="Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols">alphanumeric symbols set</a> in mathematics and science, and <a href="/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms" title="Halfwidth and fullwidth forms">halfwidth and fullwidth forms</a> for legacy <a href="/wiki/CJK_characters" title="CJK characters">CJK</a> font compatibility. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3></div> <div style="width: 500px;"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="text-align: center; background: white;"> <tbody><tr style="font-size: 85%; line-height: 125%;"> <td width="50%" style="border-left: 1px solid silver; border-top: 1px solid silver; line-height:1.3em; padding:0.3em;"><a href="/wiki/NATO_spelling_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="NATO spelling alphabet">NATO phonetic</a> </td> <td width="50%" style="border-left: 1px solid silver; border-top: 1px solid silver; border-right: 1px solid silver;"><a href="/wiki/Morse_code" title="Morse code">Morse code</a> </td></tr> <tr style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; font-size:150%"> <td width="50%" style="border-left: 1px solid silver; padding:0.3em;">Lima<br /><i style="font-size:75%"></i> </td> <td width="50%" style="border-left: 1px solid silver; border-right: 1px solid silver; font-size: large;"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion nounderlines"><span class="noprint"><span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-labelElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" data-ooui="{"_":"mw.Phonos.PhonosButton","href":"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/transcoded\/a\/a8\/L_morse_code.ogg\/L_morse_code.ogg.mp3","rel":["nofollow"],"framed":false,"icon":"volumeUp","label":{"html":"<span style=\"font-family: monospace; 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background: white;"> <tbody><tr style="height: 80px;"> <td width="20%" style="border-left: 1px solid silver; border-top: 1px solid silver; padding:0.3em;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ICS_Lima.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/ICS_Lima.svg/75px-ICS_Lima.svg.png" decoding="async" width="75" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/ICS_Lima.svg/113px-ICS_Lima.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/ICS_Lima.svg/150px-ICS_Lima.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> </td> <td width="20%" style="border-left: 1px solid silver; border-top: 1px solid silver; padding:0.3em;"> <p><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Semaphore_Lima.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Semaphore_Lima.svg/90px-Semaphore_Lima.svg.png" decoding="async" width="90" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Semaphore_Lima.svg/135px-Semaphore_Lima.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Semaphore_Lima.svg/180px-Semaphore_Lima.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="500" /></a></span> </p> </td> <td width="20%" style="border-left: 1px solid silver; 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"el", "ells", <i>op. cit.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150103100530/http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/3_lam.html">"Ancient Hebrew Research Center"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 23,</span> 2023</span>. <q><span class="serif-fonts" style="font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Times, 'Times New Roman', FreeSerif, 'DejaVu Math TeX', 'URW Bookman L', serif;">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). </span></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+International+System+of+Units+%28SI%29+%7C+The+SI+brochure%2C+9th+edition%2C+2019&rft.date=2022-12&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bipm.org%2Fdocuments%2F20126%2F41483022%2FSI-Brochure-9-EN.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AL" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.1.0/ch22.pdf">The Unicode Standard, Version 15.0, Chapter 22</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPepys2004" class="citation book cs1">Pepys, Samuel (December 31, 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1661/12/31/">"Tuesday 31 December 1661"</a>. <i>The Diary of Samuel Pepys</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211124225143/https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1661/12/31/">Archived</a> from the original on November 24, 2021.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Tuesday+31+December+1661&rft.btitle=The+Diary+of+Samuel+Pepys&rft.date=2004-12-31&rft.aulast=Pepys&rft.aufirst=Samuel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pepysdiary.com%2Fdiary%2F1661%2F12%2F31%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AL" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Gordon-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Gordon_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGordon,_Arthur_E.1983" class="citation book cs1">Gordon, Arthur E. 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class=""><a href="/wiki/Z" title="Z">Zz </a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="26"><div style="width:100%; background:#e0e0e0;; text-align:center;">Letter L with <a href="/wiki/Diacritic" title="Diacritic">diacritics</a></div> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C4%B9" class="mw-redirect" title="Ĺ">Ĺĺ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C4%BD" title="Ľ">Ľľ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C4%BB" class="mw-redirect" title="Ļ">Ļļ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%B6" title="Ḷ">Ḷḷ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%B8" title="Ḹ">Ḹḹ</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a 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