Ľ/ľ is a grapheme found only in the Slovak alphabet. It is an L with a caron diacritical mark, more normally but simplified to look like an apostrophe with L, and is pronounced as palatal lateral approximant , similar to the “lj-” sound in Ljubljana or million. Examples: podnikateľ: “businessman” Ján Figeľ, Slovakian politician who was European Commissioner for Education, Training & Culture from 2004 to 2009 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 (1812-1856). This incorrect usage is sometimes the result of an OCR error.