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LL
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Appendix:Variations of "ll"
English
Noun
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en limited license.
en lower level.
en sociolinguistics en linguistic landscape.
en linguistics en Late Latin.
en sports en lucky loser.
en low-lead fuel/gasoline/petrol/avgas.
en long live.
Adjective
-
en low-lead.
Related terms
en L UL
Phrase
phr
en US military en lesson learned.
Further reading
en linguistic landscape
Spanish
es It's always capitalized as Ll unless in all-caps, even back when it was considered one letter
Pronunciation
Letter
es letter upper case lower case ll mixed case Ll
elle, the 14th letter of the Spanish alphabet, after L and before M
Usage notes
Since 1994, this letter is treated as two separate L letters for collation purposes only. In 2010, this letter was officially dropped by the RAE from the Spanish alphabet.
Tagalog
Etymology
tl :bor es:LL + 1
Pronunciation
elye<qq:letter name> raw:/lj/ [lj]<qq:phoneme> raw:/j/ [j]<qq:phoneme, obsolete>
Letter
tl
tl historical 14 elle abec
Usage notes
Unlike other Spanish dialects, ⟨LL⟩ in es-PH - conforms to es lleísmo. However, very early Spanish borrowings (around 16th–17th century) seem to follow es yeísmo such as in tl kabayo (es caballo), tl sibuyas (es cebollas), and tl yawe (es llave).
See also
tl L
Welsh
Alternative forms
wlm Ỻ archaic usually Middle Welsh
Pronunciation
cy /ɛɬ/ standard
cy /ɬ/ informal
Letter
cy
cy letter 16 èll L M
See also
Mutation
Ll at the beginning of words mutates to cy L in a en soft mutation, but is unchanged by en nasal mutation and en aspirate mutation.