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Historical language question "-il", "-ille" or "-ill-"

-il: Soleil (sun)?

-ille: Briller (to shine)?

-ill-: Papillon (butterfly)?

Why they are always pronounced as [j]? I think perhaps the Latin Alphabet "l" had special phonetic distinctions in the past.

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