Lješ

Lješ (Serbian Cyrillic: Љеш) is an Old Serbian masculine given name, a diminutive of Aleksa. It may refer to:

  • Lješanska nahija, historical region in Montenegro
  • Lješkopolje, geographical region in Montenegro
  • Lezhë, town in Albania, known in Serbian as Lješ
  • Aleksa Đurašević, known as Lješ, nobleman in Zeta
  • See also

  • Lješevo, village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Lješnica (disambiguation)
  • Lještansko, village in Serbia
  • Lješljani, village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Liješnje, village in Montenegro
  • References

    Lje

    Lje љ; italics: Љ љ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

    Lje represents a palatal lateral /ʎ/, a sound similar (but not identical) to the palatalized alveolar lateral, which is in some languages represented by the digraph ⟨ль⟩ and pronounced /lʲ/ like the ll in "million".

    Lje is a ligature of ⟨л⟩ and ⟨ь⟩. It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph ⟨ль⟩. It corresponds to the digraph Lj in Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian.

    It is today used in Macedonian, variants of Serbo-Croatian when written in Cyrillic (Bosnian, Montenegrin and Serbian), and Itelmen.

    Related letters and other similar characters

  • Л л : Cyrillic letter El
  • Ь ь : Cyrillic letter Soft sign
  • Ll : Spanish double L in the absence of Yeísmo
  • Computing codes

    References

    External links

  • The dictionary definition of Љ at Wiktionary
  • The dictionary definition of љ at Wiktionary
  • Audio samples of the letter Lje

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