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EntityQ204782· pop 54· linked from 321 articles

Also known as Lje

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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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Key facts

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

via Wikipedia infobox

Article · Español

La Lle o Lje (Љ, љ) es una ligadura de Л y Ь. Se usa en el Serbio y el Macedonio para representar al palatal lateral [ʎ], el mismo sonido que es representado en el español por Ll, cuando no hay yeísmo. Fue inventada por Vuk Stefanović Karadžić. En los alfabetos latinos serbio y croata es representada por el dígrafo Lj. * Datos: Q204782 * Multimedia: Cyrillic Lje / Q204782

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