Lje

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Cyrillic letter Lje
Unicode (hex)
majuscule: U+0409
minuscule: U+0459
Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Д	Ђ
Ѓ	Е	Ѐ	Ё	Є	Ж	З
Ѕ	И	Ѝ	І	Ї	Й	Ј
К	Л	Љ	М	Н	Њ	О
П	Р	С	Т	Ћ	Ќ	У
Ў	Ф	Х	Ц	Ч	Џ	Ш
Щ	Ъ	Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ	Ӓ	Ә	Ӛ	Ӕ	Ғ	Ҕ
Ӻ	Ӷ	Ԁ	Ԃ	Ӗ	Ӂ	Җ
Ӝ	Ԅ	Ҙ	Ӟ	Ԑ	Ӡ	Ԇ
Ӣ	Ҋ	Ӥ	Қ	Ӄ	Ҡ	Ҟ
Ҝ	Ԟ	Ԛ	Ӆ	Ԓ	Ԡ	Ԉ
Ԕ	Ӎ	Ӊ	Ң	Ӈ	Ҥ	Ԣ
Ԋ	Ӧ	Ө	Ӫ	Ҩ	Ҧ	Ҏ
Ԗ	Ҫ	Ԍ	Ҭ	Ԏ	Ӯ	Ӱ
Ӳ	Ү	Ұ	Ҳ	Ӽ	Ӿ	Һ
Ҵ	Ҷ	Ӵ	Ӌ	Ҹ	Ҽ	Ҿ
Ӹ	Ҍ	Ӭ	Ԙ	Ԝ	Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѻ	ОУ	Ѡ	Ѣ	Ꙗ	Ѥ
Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ	Ѱ	Ѳ
Ѵ	Ꙟ
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

The Cyrillic letter lje (Љ, љ) was originally a ligature of Л and Ь and represents a palatal lateral /ʎ/, a sound similar (but not equal) to the palatalized alveolar lateral represented by the digraph ЛЬ /lʲ/. It is used in Serbian and Macedonian. It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and corresponds to the Latin digraph Lj in Serbian and Croatian.

[edit] External links

• Audio samples of the letter Lj
• see Larry Jason Eustice Artist that signs his work LJE

[edit] References and sources

"Serbian language" for I grady of high school written by Miloš Milošević

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