El with Hook
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El with hook is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter El
(Л л) by adding a hook to the bottom of the right leg.
El with hook was first used in a Chukchi language
primer that was published in 1996 (), replacing the Cyrillic letter ⟨Л⟩ to reduce confusion with the different pronunciation of the Russian letter of the same form. It is also used in the Itelmen
and Khanty
languages.
This letter represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
/ɬ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ll⟩ in the Welsh language
.
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter El
El (Cyrillic)
El is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.El commonly represents the alveolar lateral approximant , like the pronunciation of ⟨l⟩ in "lip".-Form:...
(Л л) by adding a hook to the bottom of the right leg.
El with hook was first used in a Chukchi language
Chukchi language
The Chukchi language is a Palaeosiberian language spoken by Chukchi people in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug...
primer that was published in 1996 (), replacing the Cyrillic letter ⟨Л⟩ to reduce confusion with the different pronunciation of the Russian letter of the same form. It is also used in the Itelmen
Itelmen language
Itelmen, also known as Western Itelmen and formerly known as Kamchadal, is a language belonging to the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family traditionally spoken in the Kamchatka Peninsula. Fewer than a hundred native speakers, mostly elderly, in a few settlements in the southwest of Koryak Autonomous Okrug,...
and Khanty
Khanty language
Khanty or Xanty language, also known previously as the Ostyak language, is a language of the Khant peoples. It is spoken in Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous okrugs, as well as in Aleksandrovsky and Kargosoksky districts of Tomsk Oblast in Russia...
languages.
This letter represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar fricatives is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is K...
/ɬ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ll⟩ in the Welsh language
Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...
.
Computing codes
| character | Ԓ | ԓ | ||
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EL WITH HOOK |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EL WITH HOOK |
||
| character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems... |
1298 | 0512 | 1299 | 0513 |
| UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks... |
212 146 | D4 92 | 212 147 | D4 93 |
| Numeric character reference Numeric character reference A numeric character reference is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-related markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the Universal Character Set of Unicode... |
Ԓ | Ԓ | ԓ | ԓ |
See also
: Cyrillic letter El with tailEl with tail
El with tail is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter El by adding a tail to the right leg.El with tail is used only in the alphabet of the Kildin Sami language, where it is located between ⟨Л⟩ and ⟨М⟩...
- Cyrillic characters in UnicodeCyrillic characters in UnicodeThe Cyrillic script is encoded in four blocks in Unicode, all in BMP:* Cyrillic: , 256 characters* Cyrillic Supplement: , 48 characters* Cyrillic Extended-A: , 32 characters* Cyrillic Extended-B: , 96 characters...