𐾁

Derived from Sogdian 𐽄 (l), a hooked-resh to distinguish the two glyphs.

𐾁 (l)

1. lesh, eighteenth letter of the Uyghur script

   𐾁 𐽰𐽳𐽴𐾅𐽶𐽷 ― l ʾwz̤yk /Le užik/ ― Syllable Le

In the Abjad systems ancestral to Sogdian and Uyghur scripts, lamedh was used for the whatever l-adjacent sound the language transcribed had; however, Sogdian alveolar approximant -l- (/l/) underwent a sound shift and became dental fricative -δ- (/ð/) in almost all environments. Following this sound shift, a new glyph was invented by the Late Sogdian scribes to represent the -l- sounds that did not shift to -δ-, which Uyghurs copied over for their script when they adopted their modified Sogdian alphabet around the 8th century.

• Mongolian: ᠯ (l)
  • ⇒ Mongolian: ᡀ (lh)