Lje, orLle (Љ љ; italics:Љ љ; also calledlye) is a letter of theCyrillic script.
The letterLje in serif and italic styles
Lje represents apalatal lateral/ʎ/, a sound similar (but not identical) to the palatalizedalveolar lateral approximant /lʲ/, which is in some languages represented by the digraph ⟨ль⟩ and pronounced/lʲ/ like the⟨ll⟩ in "million". Compare Latvian ⟨ļ⟩, Slovak ⟨ľ⟩, Hungarian ⟨ly⟩, Portuguese ⟨lh⟩, Spanish ⟨ll⟩ and Italian ⟨gl⟩.
