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L with caron in Doulos SIL

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]

Slovak

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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

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⟨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

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References

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  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. ^ "Korotkyj pravopys" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-12-15. Retrieved 2019-08-11.