El with hook

{{Short description|Cyrillic letter used for /ɬ/ in Chukchi}}

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El with hook (Ԓ  ԓ; italics: Ԓ ԓ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. 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 and Khanty. In all three of these languages, it represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative {{IPA|/ɬ/}}, like the pronunciation of {{angbr|ll}} in the Welsh language.

El with hook was officially added to the Chukchi alphabet in the late 1980s.{{cite journal |last=Burykin |first=A. A. |year=2000 |script-title=ru:Изучение фонетики языков малочисленных народов Севера России и проблемы развития их письменности |trans-title=Research in phonetics of the North Russian Indigenous Languages and the Problems of Development of Their Writing Systems |url= http://altaica.ru/LIBRARY/burykin/burykin_northphonetics.pdf |language=ru |volume=3 |location=СПб. |journal=Язык и речевая деятельность (Language and Speech Activity)|pages=150–180 |issn=1560-2974}} The letter was first used in a Chukchi language primer that was published in 1996 ({{lang|ckt|Ԓыгъоравэтԓьэн йиԓыйиԓ}}), replacing the Cyrillic letter El {{angbr|Л}} to reduce confusion with the different pronunciation of the Russian letter of the same form.

El with hook is the nineteenth letter of Itelmen, introduced with the new Cyrillic alphabet during 1984–1988. In some publications, it is substituted by El with descender (Ԯ ԯ).Историко-этнографическое учебное пособие по ительменскому языку. Краснодар, 2005.

El with hook has been in use in Khanty since 1990.{{cite journal |first=N. B. |last=Koshkareva |year=2013 |script-title=ru:Актуальные вопросы совершенствования хантыйской графики и орфографии |trans-title=Topical issues of perfection of the Khanty script and orthography |url=http://www.philology.nsc.ru/elib/data/Articles/Koshkareva_2013_Aktualnyje_voprosy.pdf |language=ru |journal=Вестник угроведения |volume=3 |issue=14 |pages=60 |publisher=Обско-угорский институт прикладных исследований и разработок |issn=2220-4156}} El with hook and El with descender are considered variants of the same letter in Khanty; their use depends on the particular publisher.