Editing Ll (section)

==Welsh==<!-- This section is linked from [[Llanfairpwllgwyngyll]] and the letter LL -->
[[File:Latin letter middle-welsh LL.svg|thumb|The Middle-Welsh LL ligature.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C00O1ZYs0pAC|title=Example of a book using the "ll" ligature|isbn=9781402153075|access-date=20 September 2014|last1=Rhys|first1=John|date=December 2003|publisher=Adegi Graphics LLC }}</ref><br />[[Unicode]]: U+1EFA and U+1EFB.]]

In [[Welsh language|Welsh]], {{angbr|ll}} stands for a [[Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives|voiceless alveolar lateral fricative]] sound ([[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]: {{IPA|[ɬ]}}). This sound is very common in [[Welsh place names|place names]] in [[Wales]] because it occurs in the word {{lang|cy|[[Llan (placename)|llan]]}}, for example, {{lang|cy|italic=no|[[Llanelli]]}}, where the {{angbr|ll}} appears twice, or {{lang|cy|italic=no|[[Llanfairpwllgwyngyll]]}}, where (in the long version of the name) the {{angbr|ll}} appears five times – with two instances of {{lang|cy|llan}} and two consecutive {{angbr|ll}} in {{lang|cy|-drobwllllan-}}.

In Welsh, {{angbr|ll}} is a separate ''digraph letter''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.comisiynyddygymraeg.cymru/english/Part%203/10%20Locales%20alphabets%20and%20character%20sets/10.2%20Alphabets/Pages/10-2-Alphabets.aspx |title=Alphabets |access-date=2020-08-05 |archive-date=2020-09-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917002233/http://www.comisiynyddygymraeg.cymru/english/Part%203/10%20Locales%20alphabets%20and%20character%20sets/10.2%20Alphabets/Pages/10-2-Alphabets.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> from {{angbr|l}} (e.g., {{lang|cy|lwc}} sorts before {{lang|cy|llaw}}). In modern Welsh this, and other digraph letters, are written with two symbols but count as one letter. In Middle Welsh it was written with a tied ligature; this ligature is included in the [[Latin Extended Additional]] Unicode block as {{unichar|1EFA|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER MIDDLE-WELSH LL}} and {{unichar|1EFB|LATIN SMALL LETTER MIDDLE-WELSH LL}}.<ref>Everson, Michael & al. "[http://www.mufi.info/proposals/n3027-medieval.pdf Proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716181924/http://www.mufi.info/proposals/n3027-medieval.pdf |date=2011-07-16 }}". 30 Jan 2006. Accessed 29 January 2013.</ref> This ligature is seldom used in Modern Welsh, but equivalent ligatures may be included in modern fonts, for example the three fonts commissioned by the [[Welsh Government]] in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/16-22-march-2020/a-typeface-has-been-designed-for-the-welsh-language/ |title=A typeface has been designed for the Welsh language |last=Wong |first=Henry |date=March 20, 2020 |website=[[Design Week|designweek.co.uk]] |access-date=April 12, 2020}}</ref>