Ll

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Ll/ll is a digraph which occurs in several natural languages.

Spain

In Spanish, official Galician spelling and Catalan, the Ll combination stands for the sound /ʎ/ (a palatal /l/). In Spanish it is pronounced /ʝ/ in many regions, or more rarely /ʒ/. For Galician lusistas (called also reintegracionistas) the script of "ll" is like the corresponding Portuguese "lh".

It was considered a single letter in Spanish orthography, and was collated after 'l' as a separate entry, but this is no longer done.

In handwriting it is written as a ligature of two L's, with a distinct uppercase and lowercase form. An old ligature for Ll is known as the 'broken l', which takes the form of a lowercase 'l' with the top half shifted to the left, connected to the lower half with a thin horizontal stroke. This ligature is not encoded by any standard character encoding and therefore cannot be used in digitized documents.

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Albanian

In Albanian, L stands, as in Spanish, for the sound /l/, while Ll is pronounced as the velar sound /ʟ/.

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Welsh

In Welsh, Ll stands for a voiceless lateral fricative sound, found also in Navajo, where it is written as Łł. The IPA signifies this sound as l with belt (ɬ). This sound is very common in place names in Wales because it occurs in the word Llan, meaning church, e.g. Llanelli where it appears twice. These Welsh placenames are therefore very often mispronounced by English speakers, especially those from outside the British Isles.

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