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Ḷ (<a href="/facts/Lower_case/KQcwaUUD">minuscule</a>: ḷ) is a letter of the <a href="/facts/Latin_alphabet/pqWVHpBz">Latin alphabet</a>, derived from <a href="/facts/L/0Ge4MIc9">L</a> with a diacritical <a href="/facts/Dot_below/Kcms1c5B">dot below</a>. It is or was used in some languages to represent various sounds.

<ul><li>In <a href="/facts/Asturian_language/VACemynx">Asturian</a>, a <a href="/facts/Digraph_(orthography)/wp3UgEyU">digraph</a> (Ḷḷ, lower case: ḷḷ) is used to represent some western dialectal phonemes corresponding to standard <a href="/facts/Ll/LoaFs9k1">ll</a> (representing a <a href="/facts/Palatal_lateral_approximant/95EyBgHm">palatal lateral approximant</a> [ʎ]). Among this group of dialectal pronunciations, usually called che vaqueira, can manifest as: a <a href="/facts/Voiced_retroflex_plosive/SQT2LTNM">voiced retroflex plosive</a> [ɖ], a <a href="/facts/Voiced_retroflex_affricate/5rkMgdGM">voiced retroflex affricate</a> [ɖʐ], a <a href="/facts/Voiceless_retroflex_affricate/XotLkK7g">voiceless retroflex affricate</a> [ʈʂ] or a <a href="/facts/Voiceless_alveolar_affricate/YfPyNGjE">voiceless alveolar affricate</a> [t͡s]. Formerly, this group of sounds were represented as lh (in Fernán Coronas's proposed writing system), ts or ŝ. However, this <a href="/facts/Grapheme/uzXGIsAr">grapheme</a> is used only in dialectal texts and in <a href="/facts/Toponymy/YgVWDQW3">toponyms</a> of western <a href="/facts/Asturias/KHVsQe5T">Asturias</a>. Because of the difficulties of writing it in digital texts, non-diacritical l.l (<a href="/facts/Majuscule/KQcwaUUD">majuscule</a>: L.l) is also often used.</li></ul>
In the <a href="/facts/International_Alphabet_of_Sanskrit_Transliteration/pkGIHRcw">International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration</a>, ḷ is used to represent <a href="/facts/Syllabic_consonant/J19Uh6EK">vocalic</a> /<a href="/facts/Voiced_alveolar_lateral_approximant/dgbHhqeK">l</a>/.
It is used to represent a <a href="/facts/Retroflex_lateral_approximant/LHNtHWAC">retroflex lateral approximant</a> /ɭ/ in several modern languages of South Asia when using <a href="/facts/ISO_15919/LPc6zDEA">ISO 15919</a> or similar transliteration schemes.
It is used to represent a <a href="/facts/Voiced_palatal_lateral_approximant/95EyBgHm">voiced palatal lateral approximant</a> [ʎ] in <a href="/facts/I%25C3%25B1upiaq_language/CUdMLN9u">Iñupiaq</a>.

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