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Also known as Lje
Lje, or Lle (Љ љ; italics: Љ љ; also called lye) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. thumb|The letter Lje in serif and italic styles Lje represents a palatal lateral , a sound similar (but not identical) to the palatalized alveolar lateral approximant /lʲ/, which is in some languages represented by the digraph ⟨ль⟩ and pronounced like the in "million". Compare Latvian ⟨ļ⟩, Slovak ⟨ľ⟩, Hungarian ⟨ly⟩, Portuguese ⟨lh⟩, Spanish ⟨ll⟩ and Italian ⟨gl⟩.
Љ (called "Lje" or "Lye") is a letter in the Cyrillic script that represents a soft "l" sound similar to the "ll" in "million." It matters because it allows languages using Cyrillic writing to represent this distinct palatal sound efficiently as a single character rather than as a combination of letters.
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- Grapheme.script
- Cyrillic
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
- Grapheme.name
- Lje
- Grapheme.image
- Cyrillic letter lje.svg
- Grapheme.imagesize
- 120px
- Grapheme.phonemes
- [], []
- Grapheme.fam1
- ЛЬ ль
- Grapheme.equivalents
- Ll ll
- Grapheme.letter
- Љ љ
- Grapheme.language
- Macedonian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Serbian Itelmen
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- Cyrillic letter Lje - uppercase and lowercase.svg
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- Unicode character
- љ
- inception
- 1818-00-00
- Commons category
- Cyrillic Lje
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Lje, or Lle (Љ љ; italics: Љ љ; also called lye) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. thumb|The letter Lje in serif and italic styles Lje represents a palatal lateral , a sound similar (but not identical) to the palatalized alveolar lateral approximant /lʲ/, which is in some languages represented by the digraph ⟨ль⟩ and pronounced like the in "million". Compare Latvian ⟨ļ⟩, Slovak ⟨ľ⟩, Hungarian ⟨ly⟩, Portuguese ⟨lh⟩, Spanish ⟨ll⟩ and Italian ⟨gl⟩.
Lje is a ligature of ⟨л⟩ and ⟨ь⟩. It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph ⟨ль⟩. It corresponds to the digraph in Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian.