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Although the sound is rare among European languages outside the Caucasus ( being found notably in Welsh, where it is written ⟨ ll ⟩), it is fairly common among Native American languages such as Navajo and Caucasian languages such as Avar.

It is also found in African languages like Zulu, Asian languages like Chukchi and Taishanese, and several Formosan languages and a number of dialects in Taiwan.

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Tolkien's Welsh-inspired artificial languages, Sindarin and early Quenya, have this sound as well.