Ll

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ll"

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɫ/

Letter

Ll (upper case, lower case ll, all caps LL)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Albanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) shkronjë; A a, B b, C c, Ç ç, D d, Dh dh, E e, Ë ë, F f, G g, Gj gj, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, Ll ll, M m, N n, Nj nj, O o, P p, Q q, R r, Rr rr, S s, Sh sh, T t, Th th, U u, V v, X x, Xh xh, Y y, Z z, Zh zh

Asturian

Proper noun

Ll ?

1. initialism of Ḷḷena

Quechua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʎ/

Letter

Ll (upper case, lower case ll, all caps LL)

1. A letter of the Quechua alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝ/ [ɟ͡ʝ]

• IPA^(key): /ʝ/ [ɟ͡ʝ] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ʎ/ [ʎ] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ʃ/ [ʃ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ʒ/ [ʒ] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)

Letter

Ll (upper case, lower case ll, all caps LL)

1. (historical) The fourteenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.
2. A digraph of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

• Since 1994, this letter is treated as if it were two separate l letters for collation purposes only. In 2010, this letter was officially dropped by the RAE from the Spanish alphabet.

Welsh

Alternative forms

• Ỻ (archaic, usually Middle Welsh)

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ɛɬ/
  • (informal) IPA^(key): /ɬ/

Letter

Ll (upper case, lower case ll, all caps LL)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called èll and written in the Latin script; preceded by L and followed by M.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) llythyren; A a (Á á, À à,  â, Ä ä), B b, C c, Ch ch, D d, Dd dd, E e (É é, È è, Ê ê, Ë ë), F f, Ff ff, G g, Ng ng, H h, I i (Í í, Ì ì, Πî, Ï ï), J j, L l, Ll ll, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ò ò, Ô ô, Ö ö), P p, Ph ph, R r, Rh rh, S s, T t, Th th, U u (Ú ú, Ù ù, Û û, Ü ü), W w (Ẃ ẃ, Ẁ ẁ, Ŵ ŵ, Ẅ ẅ), Y y (Ý ý, Ỳ ỳ, Ŷ ŷ, Ÿ ÿ)

Mutation

• Ll at the beginning of words mutates to L in a soft mutation, but is unchanged by nasal mutation and aspirate mutation, for example with the word llawen (“merry”):

Mutated forms of llawen

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
llawen	lawen	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “Ll”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies