Lj (digraph)
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- See LJ for other meanings.
Lj (
lj in lower case) is a letter present in some
Slavic languages such as
Croatian and
Serbian, where it is pronounced (
IPA)
{{IPA. For example, the word "ljiljan" is pronounced
/ʎiʎan/. Most languages containing the letter
Lj in the alphabet are phonetic, which means that every symbol is 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.
Ljudevit Gaj first used this digraph in 1830.
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