Soft El

{{short description|Cyrillic letter}}

{{distinguish|El (disambiguation){{!}}El}}

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|script = Cyrillic

|type = Alphabet

|typedesc = ic

|name = Cyrillic letter
Soft El

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|phonemes = {{IPA|/lʲ/}}

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Soft El (Ꙥ ꙥ; italics: Ꙥ ꙥ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Soft El has seen rare use in certain Old Church Slavonic editions as a fused form of {{lang|cu|Л҄}}, denoting a palatalized {{lang|cu|Л}}.{{Cite web| title=Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS | date=2007-03-21 | url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07003r-n3194r-cyrillic.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819133140/http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07003r-n3194r-cyrillic.pdf | archive-date=2013-08-19}}

This letter is also used for the Cyrillization of Arabic.{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}