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Л/л

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Also known as El, Cyrillic El, Cyrillic L

Cyrillic letter El

AI overview

"Л/л" is the twelfth letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in Russian and other Slavic languages to represent a sound similar to the English "L." It is essential for writing and reading these languages, as it appears in countless everyday words.

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Encyclopedic overview

El, from Alexandre Benois' 1904 alphabet book El (Л л; italics: Л л or Л л; italics: Л л) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

El commonly represents the alveolar lateral approximant /l/. In Slavic languages it may be either palatalized or slightly velarized; see below.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Л/л” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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