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El with hook (Ԓ ԓ; italics: ''Ԓ ԓ'') is a letter of the
The letter has two variant forms: the original one where the hook is like a small comma, and the other where the hook is notably protruded below the baseline.
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter El (Л л) by adding a hook to the bottom of the right leg.
It is used in Chukchi and, in some publications, in Itelmen
The Itelmens (; ) are an Indigenous ethnic group of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. The Itelmen language is distantly related to Chukchi and Koryak, forming the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family, but it is now virtually extinct, the vas ...
and Khanty
The Khanty (), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (), are a Ugric Indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as " Yugra" in Russia, together with the Mansi. In the autonomous okrug, the K ...
. In all three of these languages, it represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral fricatives is , a ...
, like the pronunciation of in the Welsh language
Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic languages, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales by about 18% of the population, by some in England, and in (the Welsh c ...
.
El with hook was officially added to the Chukchi alphabet in the late 1980s. The letter was first used in a Chukchi language primer that was published in 1996 ('), replacing the Cyrillic letter El to reduce confusion with the different pronunciation of the Russian letter of the same form.
El with hook is the nineteenth letter of Itelmen
The Itelmens (; ) are an Indigenous ethnic group of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. The Itelmen language is distantly related to Chukchi and Koryak, forming the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family, but it is now virtually extinct, the vas ...
, introduced with the new Cyrillic alphabet during 1984–1988. In some publications, it is substituted by El with descender (Ԯ ԯ).
El with hook has been in use in Khanty
The Khanty (), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (), are a Ugric Indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as " Yugra" in Russia, together with the Mansi. In the autonomous okrug, the K ...
since 1990. El with hook and El with descender are considered variants of the same letter in Khanty; their use depends on the particular publisher.
Computing codes
Variant forms
The letter has two variant forms: the original one where the hook is like a small comma, and the other where the hook is notably protruded below the baseline.
See also
*Ԯ ԯ : Cyrillic letter El with descender *Ӆ ӆ : Cyrillic letter El with tail *Ԡ ԡ : Cyrillic letter El with middle hook *Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version , Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU+A64 ...
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