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      <title>Beautiful Ligatures in Serbian Cyrillic</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Ligatures for &amp;ldquo;ль&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;нь&amp;rdquo; are unique to the Cyrillic alphabets of several Slavic languages in Southeastern Europe. We don&amp;rsquo;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&amp;rsquo;t have. You can see љ (&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lje&#34;&gt;Lje&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;) on this road sign for Жељуша in Serbia (with the &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaj%27s_Latin_alphabet&#34;&gt;Serbo-Croatian Latin&lt;/a&gt; representation below it):&lt;/p&gt;








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            alt=&#34;Road sign for Жељуша town in Serbia showing the Cyrillic ligature for &amp;amp;ldquo;ль&amp;amp;rdquo;&#34;/&gt; &lt;figcaption&gt;
            &lt;p&gt;Road sign for Жељуша town in Serbia showing the Cyrillic ligature for &amp;ldquo;ль&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Beautiful Ligatures in Macedonian Cyrillic</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Macedonian is a Slavic language closely related to Bulgarian. My untrained ear can&amp;rsquo;t tell the difference between the two, but my eyes spot differences immediately. In addition to minor variations in spelling and grammar, &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_alphabet&#34;&gt;Macedonian&amp;rsquo;s Cyrillic alphabet&lt;/a&gt; uses a handful of characters not present in Bulgarian&amp;rsquo;s, for example the beautiful ligatures for &amp;ldquo;ль&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;нь&amp;rdquo;: љ and њ, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;








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            alt=&#34;Ligatures for upper and lowercase &amp;amp;ldquo;Lje&amp;amp;rdquo; and &amp;amp;ldquo;Nje&amp;amp;rdquo; characters (rendered in PT Sans)&#34;/&gt; &lt;figcaption&gt;
            &lt;p&gt;Ligatures for upper and lowercase &amp;ldquo;Lje&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Nje&amp;rdquo; characters (rendered in PT Sans)&lt;/p&gt;
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