Ḷ (

minuscule Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...

: ḷ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from L with a diacritical

dot below When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot is usually reserved for the '' interpunct'' ( · ), or to the glyphs "combining dot above" ( ◌̇ ) and "combining dot below" ( ◌̣ ) which may be combined with some letters of t ...

. It is or was used in some languages to represent various sounds. *In Asturian, a digraph (Ḷḷ, lower case: ḷḷ) is used to represent some western dialectal phonemes corresponding to standard ll (representing a

palatal lateral approximant The voiced palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a rotated lowercase letter (not to be confused with lowercas ...

). Among this group of dialectal pronunciations, usually called che vaqueira, can appear basically: a

voiced retroflex plosive The voiced retroflex plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is d`. Like all the retroflex ...

, a voiced retroflex affricate , a voiceless retroflex affricate and a voiceless alveolar affricate . Formerly, this group of sounds were represented as ''lh'' (in

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's proposed writing system), ''ts'' or ''ŝ''. However, this grapheme is used only in dialectal texts and in

toponyms Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of ''toponyms'' (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types. Toponym is the general term for a proper name of ...

of western Asturias. Because of the difficulties of writing it in digital texts, non-diacritical l.l (

majuscule Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...

: L.l) is also often used.''Normes Ortográfiques''
paragraph 1.1.3.1 (p.14). In the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, ḷ is used to represent

vocalic A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Vowels are one of the two principal classes of speech sounds, the other being the consonant. Vowels vary in quality, in loudness and also in quantity (leng ...

. It is used to represent a

retroflex lateral approximant The voiced retroflex lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is l`. The retroflex late ...

/ɭ/ in several modern language of South Asia when using

ISO 15919 ISO 15919 (Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters) is one of a series of international standards for romanization by the International Organization for Standardization. It was published in 2001 and uses dia ...

or similar transliteration schemes. It is used to represent a voiced palatal lateral approximant �in Iñupiaq.

Computer encoding

HTML characters and Unicode code point numbers: * Ḷ: Ḷ or Ḷ – - Latin capital letter L with dot below * ḷ: ḷ or ḷ – - Latin small letter L with dot below

References

Latin letters with diacritics Asturian language ast:Ḷḷ no:Ḷḷ (bokstav) {{Latin-script-stub