El (Cyrillic) - History

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The Cyrillic letter El was derived from the Greek letter Lambda (Λ λ).

In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was людиѥ (ljudije), meaning "people".

In the Cyrillic numeral system, El had a value of 30.

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