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The Cyrillic letter ј was introduced in the 1818 Serbian dictionary of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, on the basis of the Latin letter j.[1] Karadžić had previously used ї instead for the same sound, a usage he took from Dositej Obradović.[2]
Usage[]
Language
pronunciation
notes
Altai
voiced palatal plosive/ɟ/
Azerbaijani
/j/
corresponds to ⟨y⟩ in the official Latin alphabet.
Prior to the development of the Macedonian alphabet in 1944-45, Macedonian authors used either І і or Й й.[3]
Orok
Ossetian
/j/
used in the original (pre-1923) Cyrillic orthography.
Serbian
/j/
in Vuk Karadžić's alphabet, the letter Je replaced the traditional letter Short I (Й й), which invited accusations of submission to the Latin script and Catholic Church (in Austria) from the Orthodox clergy.