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El (Cyrillic)
Cyrillic letter
Cyrillic letter
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| letter | Л л |
| script | Cyrillic |
| type | Alphabet |
| typedesc | ic |
| name | El () |
| image | Cyrillic letter El - uppercase and lowercase.svg |
| imageclass | skin-invert-image |
| phonemes | [], [], [], [], [], [] |
| number | 30 (Cyrillic numerals) |
| fam1 | Λ λ |
| equivalents | L l |
| language | Old Church Slavonic |
| unicode | U+041B, U+043B |
| children | Љ љ |
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 . In Slavic languages it may be either palatalized or slightly velarized; see below.
History
The Cyrillic letter El was derived from the Greek letter lambda (Λ λ).
In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was (ljudije), meaning "people".
In the Cyrillic numeral system, Л had a value of 30.
Forms
El has two forms: one form resembles Greek capital Lambda (Ʌ ʌ), and the other form resembles the Hebrew letter ת (Л л).
In some typefaces the Cyrillic letter El has a grapheme which may be confused with the Cyrillic letter Pe (П п). Note that Pe has a straight left leg, without the hook. An alternative form of El (Ʌ ʌ) is more common in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbian.
Usage
As used in the alphabets of various languages, El represents the following sounds:
- alveolar lateral approximant , like the pronunciation of in "lip"
- palatalized alveolar lateral approximant
- velarized alveolar lateral approximant , like the pronunciation of in "bell" and "milk"
- Labiovelar approximant , like the in "water"
- voiced alveolar lateral fricative and its palatalized equivalent
The phoneme in Slavic languages has two realizations: hard (, , or , exact pronunciation varies) and soft (pronounced as )see palatalization for details. Serbian and Macedonian orthographies use a separate letter Љ for the soft it looks as a ligature of El with the soft sign (Ь). In these languages, denotes only hard . Pronunciation of hard is sometimes given as , but it is always more velar than in French or German.
Slavic languages except Serbian and Macedonian use another orthographic convention to distinguish between hard and soft , so can denote either variant depending on the subsequent letter.
The pronunciations shown in the table are the primary ones for each language.
| Language | Position in | |
|---|---|---|
| alphabet | Pronunciation | |
| Belarusian | 13th | |
| Bulgarian | 12th | |
| Kazakh | 16th | |
| Macedonian | 14th | |
| Mongolian | 13th | |
| Ossetian | 16th | |
| Russian | 13th | |
| Serbian | 13th | |
| Ukrainian | 16th |
In addition, л was formerly used in Chukchi to represent the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative but has since been replaced by ԓ.
Use in mathematics
El is sometimes used to represent the Clausen function, and if not, the capital greek letter Lambda is.
Computing codes
|041B|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter El |043B|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter El
References
References
- (September 2003). "The Slavonic Languages". Routledge.
- Svantesson, Jan-Olof. (2005). "The phonology of Mongolian". Oxford University press.
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