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<link rel="canonical" href="/categories/travel/">
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<title>English Bulgaria</title>
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<div class="row flex-nowrap justify-content-between align-items-center">
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<a class="blog-header-logo text-dark" href="/">English Bulgaria</a>
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<article class="blog-post">
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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="/2016/02/beautiful-ligatures-in-serbian-cyrillic/">Beautiful Ligatures in Serbian Cyrillic</a></h2>
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<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-02-24T11:37:16Z">Wed Feb 24, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<a href="/categories/language/" rel="category tag">Language</a>, <a href="/categories/travel/" rel="category tag">Travel</a>
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<a href="/tags/cyrillic/" rel="tag">Cyrillic</a>, <a href="/tags/serbia/" rel="tag">Serbia</a>
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<p>Ligatures for “ль” and “нь” are unique to the Cyrillic alphabets of several Slavic languages in Southeastern Europe. We don’t have them in Bulgarian, so I can remember being confused the first time I saw them in Serbia. My confusion turned into fascination once I realized that their construction fused two characters that I knew how to use into one that we simply don’t have. You can see љ (<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lje">Lje</a></em>) on this road sign for Жељуша in Serbia (with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaj%27s_Latin_alphabet">Serbo-Croatian Latin</a> representation below it):</p>
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src="/2016/02/beautiful-ligatures-in-serbian-cyrillic/2016-02-10_hu548ce2ededffa3eb0b61879a11636bba_229110_800x0_resize_q75_box.jpg"
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alt="Road sign for Жељуша town in Serbia showing the Cyrillic ligature for &ldquo;ль&rdquo;"/> <figcaption>
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<p>Road sign for Жељуша town in Serbia showing the Cyrillic ligature for “ль”</p>
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<a href='/2016/02/beautiful-ligatures-in-serbian-cyrillic/'>Continue reading...</a>
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<article class="blog-post">
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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="/2016/02/beautiful-ligatures-in-macedonian-cyrillic/">Beautiful Ligatures in Macedonian Cyrillic</a></h2>
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<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-02-08T09:14:15Z">Mon Feb 08, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<a href="/categories/language/" rel="category tag">Language</a>, <a href="/categories/travel/" rel="category tag">Travel</a>
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<a href="/tags/bulgarian/" rel="tag">Bulgarian</a>, <a href="/tags/cyrillic/" rel="tag">Cyrillic</a>, <a href="/tags/macedonia/" rel="tag">Macedonia</a>
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<p>Macedonian is a Slavic language closely related to Bulgarian. My untrained ear can’t tell the difference between the two, but my eyes spot differences immediately. In addition to minor variations in spelling and grammar, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_alphabet">Macedonian’s Cyrillic alphabet</a> uses a handful of characters not present in Bulgarian’s, for example the beautiful ligatures for “ль” and “нь”: љ and њ, respectively.</p>
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alt="Ligatures for upper and lowercase &ldquo;Lje&rdquo; and &ldquo;Nje&rdquo; characters (rendered in PT Sans)"/> <figcaption>
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<p>Ligatures for upper and lowercase “Lje” and “Nje” characters (rendered in PT Sans)</p>
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<a href='/2016/02/beautiful-ligatures-in-macedonian-cyrillic/'>Continue reading...</a>
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<h4 class="fst-italic">About</h4>
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<p class="mb-0"><em>English Bulgaria</em>. Life in the Balkans… in English! <a href="/about">Read more →</a></p>
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