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Ḷ
Ḷ
is a letter of the
Latin alphabet
, derived from
L
with a
diacritical
dot below
. It is or was used in some
languages
to
represent
various sounds.
In
Asturian
, a
digraph
is used to represent some
western
dialectal
phonemes
corresponding to
standard
ll
. Among this group of dialectal
pronunciations
, usually called
che
vaqueira
, can appear basically: a
voiced retroflex plosive
, a
voiced retroflex affricate
, a
voiceless retroflex affricate
and a
voiceless alveolar affricate
. Formerly, this group of sounds were represented as
lh
,
ts
or
ŝ
. However, this
grapheme
is used only in dialectal
texts
and in
toponyms
of western
Asturias
. Because of the difficulties of writing it in digital texts, non-diacritical
l.l
is also often used.
In the
International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration
,
ḷ
is used to represent
vocalic
.
Computer
encoding
HTML characters
and
Unicode code point
numbers:
Ḷ: Ḷ or Ḷ - U+1E36 - Latin
capital letter
L with
dot
below
ḷ: ḷ or ḷ - U+1E37 - Latin
small letter
L with dot below