Lj (digraph)
Lj (lj in
Cyrillic alphabet has a specific symbol for the same sound: Љ
.
In sentence case, only L is capitalized.[1]
The same sound appears in Italian spelled with ⟨gl⟩, in some variants of Spanish and Catalan as ⟨ll⟩, in Portuguese as ⟨lh⟩, in Breton ⟨ilh⟩, in some Hungarian dialects as ⟨ly⟩ and in Latvian as ⟨ļ⟩. In Czech and Slovak, it is often transcribed as ⟨ľ⟩ (it is used more frequently on the latter language).
Ljudevit Gaj first proposed this digraph in 1835.[2]
See also
- Љ, the Cyrillic version of Lj
- Gaj's Latin alphabet
References
- ^ "Slova - Hrvatski pravopis".
- ^ "Lj". Croatian Encyclopedia. Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
External links
- Audio samples of the letter LJ