L/l

Also known as Lima, ʟ, L, lima, el, ell, l

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: 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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Image: Latin alphabet Ll.svg

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Unicode character: ⅼ
code: L
Commons category: L
Commons gallery: L

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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

==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.