ḶḶ Ḷ Ḷ (minuscule: ḷ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from L with a diacritical dot below. It is or was used in some languages to represent various sounds. In the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, ḷ is used to represent vocalic . It is used to represent a retroflex lateral approximant /ɭ/ in several modern language of South Asia when using ISO 15919 or similar transliteration schemes. It is used to represent a voiced palatal lateral approximant [ʎ] in Iñupiaq. Computer encoding. HTML characters and Unicode code point numbers: Ḷ Ḷ (minuscule: ḷ) is a letter of the