Ll - Philippine Languages

Philippine Languages

While Philippine languages like Tagalog and Ilokano write ly or li in the spelling of Spanish loanwords, ll still survives in proper nouns. However, the pronunciation of ll is simply rather than . Hence the surnames Padilla and Villanueva are respectively pronounced and .

Furthermore, in Ilokano ll represents a geminate alveolar lateral approximant /lĖ/, like in Italian.

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