Ll / ll is a digraph that occurs in several languages. In English, ll often represents the same sound as single l : /l/. The doubling is used to indicate that the preceding vowel is (historically) short, or that the "l" sound is to be extended longer than a single l. would provide (etymologically, in latinisms coming from a gemination).

It appears in Unicode as the pre-composed letters Ŀ (U+013F) and ŀ (U+0140), but they are compatibility characters and are not frequently used or recommended. [5][a] The interpunct is used in Chinese (which generally lacks spacing between characters) to mark divisions in words transliterated from phonogram languages, particularly names.

When a digraph is referenced to without concerning about case, it is written like this: Ŀl ŀl; with a space between the letters. Different languages' orthographies may have different rules about capitalization of the first letter of a word.

U+0140 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH MIDDLE DOT is intended to be used in Catalan (‘ŀl’ is pronounced as two separate ‘l’ while ‘ll’ is pronounced as in ‘million’).

2025年1月24日 · Abbreviation of lines; formed similarly to pp for pages. The seventeenth letter of the Albanian alphabet, written in the Latin script. (used to represent the sound /ʎ/. See also ŀl.) A letter of the Quechua alphabet, written in the Latin script. Since 1994, this letter is treated as if it were two separate l letters for collation purposes only.

Along with the typical Latin Alphabet, Catalan uses the Cedilla ç or the Ce trencada and the Middot or the Punt volat ŀl . The Cedilla ç is used before letters a, u, o, and at the end of words to represent a soft c or s sound /s/, much like in Portuguese or French. For …

Implosive consonants are often indicated by attaching a hook to the letter: ɓ or ɗ. Welsh is famous for its ll sound, a breathy voiceless l (IPA ɬ). All you need to do is place your tongue in position ready to pronounce an l sound and breathe out without moving a …

A punctuation mark resembling the interpunct is used in the characteristically Catalan grapheme "ŀl" (called ele geminada, "geminate l"). It is used to distinguish a lengthened "l" from a palatized "l", written "ll". In the Shavian alphabet, the interpunct is used before a word to denote it as a proper noun. See also. middle dot

2024年3月16日 · Since Greek and Spanish have surprisingly similar phonemic inventories, I based this Greek Latin alphabet on Spanish orthography. /ᵐb/ before m or at the start of a word, /v/ elsewhere. /θ/ before e i y, /k/ elsewhere. Never occurs before e i y . /ⁿd/ before n or at the start of a word, /ð/ elsewhere.

In handwriting, (Ll) is written as a ligature of two (l)s, with distinct uppercase and lowercase forms. Today, most Spanish speakers pronounce (ll) and (y) as the same sound, a phenomenon called yeísmo.