Ľ

Ľ

Ľ

Latin letter L with caron, used in Slovak

Not to be confused with L' (with an apostrophe).

Ľ (minuscule: ľ) is a grapheme found officially in the Slovak alphabet and in some versions of the Ukrainian Latin alphabet. It is an L with a caron diacritical mark, more normally ˇ but simplified to look like an apostrophe with L, and is pronounced as palatal lateral approximant [ʎ], similar to the "lj-" sound in Ljubljana or million.[1]

L with caron in Doulos SIL

Slovak

Examples include:

Note that an approximation using an ' apostrophe is sometimes found in some English texts, for example "L'udovit Stur" [sic] for correct Slovak Ľ-caron in Ľudovít Štúr. This incorrect usage is sometimes the result of an OCR error.

Ukrainian

⟨Ľ⟩ appears in some versions of the Ukrainian Latin Alphabet (Latynka), such as Jireček and Luchuk.[2] It represents a palatalised ⟨l⟩, transcribed as /lʲ/. In other versions, it is written as ⟨lj⟩ or ⟨li⟩.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Háček (Caron) - Diacritics Project @ Typo.cz "In Czech and Slovak, the caron has a special vertical form used on tall characters (ď, ť, ľ, Ľ). Its introduction was no doubt a solution to the limited vertical space available on the body of a piece of metal type. The regular caron (ě, š, č, ň, ǔ …) ..."
  2. [2]
    "Korotkyj pravopys" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-12-15. Retrieved 2019-08-11.


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