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See LJ for other meanings.

Lj (lj in lower case) is a letter present in some Slavic languages, such as the Latin version of Serbo-Croatian and in romanised Macedonian, where it represents a palatal lateral approximant {{IPA|/ʎ/}}. For example, the word ljiljan is pronounced {{IPA|/ʎiʎan/}}. Most languages containing the letter in the alphabet are phonemic, which means that every symbol represents 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 for the same sound: Љ.

The same sound appears in Italian spelled with , in some variants of Spanish and Catalan as , in Portuguese as , in some Hungarian dialects as 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 used this digraph in 1830.

See also

• Љ, the Cyrillic version of Lj
• Gaj's Latin alphabet

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• Audio samples of the letter LJ

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