Lje
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Lje, or Lle (Љ љ; italics: Љ љ; also called lye) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
Lje represents a palatal lateral Template:IPA, 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 Template:IPA like the Template:Angbr in "million". Compare Latvian ⟨ļ⟩, Slovak ⟨ľ⟩, Hungarian ⟨ly⟩, Portuguese ⟨lh⟩, Spanish ⟨ll⟩ and Italian ⟨gl⟩.
Lje is a ligature of ⟨л⟩ and ⟨ь⟩.<ref name="Maretić">Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika. 1899.</ref> It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph ⟨ль⟩.<ref name="Maretić" /> It corresponds to the digraph Template:Angbr in Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian.<ref name="Maretić" />
It is today used in Macedonian, variants of Serbo-Croatian when written in Cyrillic (Bosnian, Montenegrin and Serbian), and Itelmen.
It was also once used in the Udege language, in the Lithuanian Cyrillic alphabet, and in the Albanian Cyrillic alphabet.
Lje is commonly transliterated as Template:Lang but can also be transliterated as Template:Lang, or Template:Lang.
Related letters and other similar characters
- Л л : Cyrillic letter El
- Ь ь : Cyrillic letter Soft sign
- Ll : Spanish double L in the absence of Yeísmo
- Ľ ľ : Latin letter L with caron - a Slovak letter
- Ĺ ĺ : Latin letter L with acute - another Slovak letter
- Ļ ļ : Latin letter L with cedilla - a Latvian letter
- Ly : Hungarian ly
- Њ њ : Cyrillic letter Nje
- LJ Lj lj : Compatibility Unicode characters
- Ԉ ԉ : Komi Lje - corresponding character formerly used in Komi
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- Audio samples of the letter Lje