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Also known as Lima, ʟ, lima, el, ell

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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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: class=skin-invert-image|20px
Grapheme.fam6: class=skin-invert-image|20px
Grapheme.fam7: Λ λ
Grapheme.fam8: 𐌋
Grapheme.usageperiod: to present
Grapheme.associates: l(x), lj, ll, ly

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Part of: Latin alphabet
Image: Latin alphabet Ll.svg

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Unicode character: ⅼ
code: L
Commons category: L
Commons gallery: L
different from: vertical bar
writing system: Latin script

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