L, or l, is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is el (pronounced ), plural els.
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L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in English and many other languages around the world. It matters because it's a fundamental building block of written communication in these languages, helping form the words we read and write every day.
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Key facts
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.name
- L
- Grapheme.letter
- L l
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic and logographic
- Grapheme.language
- Latin language
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+004C, U+006C
- Grapheme.alphanumber
- 12
- Grapheme.fam1
- U20
- Grapheme.fam2
- S39
- Grapheme.fam3
- class=skin-invert-image|20px
- Grapheme.fam4
- class=skin-invert-image|20px
- Grapheme.fam5
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- History
- Typographic variants
- Use in writing systems
- English
- Other languages
- Other systems
- Other uses
- Related characters
- Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
- Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations
- Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
- Other representations
- Computing <span class="anchor" id="Computing codes"></span>
- Other
- Notes
- References
- External links
L, or l, is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is el (pronounced ), plural els.
==History== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Egyptian hieroglyph ! Phoenicianlamedh ! Western GreekLambda ! EtruscanL ! Latin L |--- align=center |S39 | class=skin-invert-image|x25px | class=skin-invert-image|x35px | class=skin-invert-image|x25px | class=skin-invert-image|x30px|Latin L |} Lamedh may have come from a pictogram of an ox goad or cattle prod. Some have suggested that it represents a shepherd's staff.