Lj (digraph)
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Lj (lj in lower case) is a letter present in some Slavic languages such as Croatian and Bosnian. It also features in the Latinic versions of Serbian and Macedonian, where it is pronounced (IPA) /ʎ/. For example, the word "ljiljan" is pronounced /ʎiʎan/. Most languages containing the letter Lj in the alphabet are phonetic, which means that every symbol represents one sound, and is always pronounced the same way. In this case, joining the letters L and J creates a new letter or a sound. Like its Latin counterpart, the Cyrillic alphabet has a specific symbol: Љ.
The same sound appears in Italian as gl, in Spanish as 'll', in Hungarian as lly and in Latvian as ḷ.
Ljudevit Gaj first used this digraph in 1830.
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- Audio samples of the letter LJ
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| Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | |
| history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • ISO 646 • list of letters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
