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1 The history of the letter -L-
L is the twelfth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

2 In English it is pronounced /l/ and the name of the letter is spelled el or occasionally ell.
The letter L is derived from the Phoenician crook or goad which stood for /l/. This originally may have been based on an Egyptian hieroglyph that was adapted by Semites for alphabetic purposes.

3 The goad It is a traditional farming implement, used to guide life stock usually oxen.

4 The development of the letter L
Egyptian hieroglyph Proto-Semitic Lamed Phoenician lamed Etruscan L Greek lambda

5 All the different presentations of the letter L in all different languages always presented the same sound /l/ as in the original Semitic letter.

6 L can have several values, depending on whether it occurs before or after a vowel
The alveolar lateral approximant occurs before a vowel, as in: lip and please The valorized alveolar lateral approximant occurs in: bell and milk

7 Soft “L” Dark “L” In Arabic: ELAH- Goddess In Russian : I love you-LOBLO God- ALLAH White-BELLY

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