Beautiful Ligatures in Macedonian Cyrillic

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, Macedonian’s Cyrillic alphabet uses a handful of characters not present in Bulgarian’s, for example the beautiful ligatures for “ль” and “нь”: љ and њ, respectively.

Ligatures for upper and lowercase “Lje” and “Nje” characters (rendered in PT Sans)

Ligatures for upper and lowercase “Lje” and “Nje” characters (rendered in PT Sans)

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