Je (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic letter Je
Cyrillic letter Je
Phonetic usage:	[j]
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Je (Ј ј; italics: Ј ј) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, taken over from the Latin letter J.^[1]

It commonly represents the palatal approximant /j/, like the pronunciation of ⟨y⟩ in "yes".

History[]

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.
Kildin Sami	voiceless palatal approximant /j̊/	the letter Short I with tail (Ҋ ҋ) is also used.
Macedonian	/j/	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.

Related letters and other similar characters[]

Й й : Cyrillic letter Short I
І і : Cyrillic letter Decimal I
Ҋ ҋ : Cyrillic letter Short I with tail
J j : Latin letter J
Y y : Latin letter Y

Computing codes[]

Character information
Preview	Ј		ј
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER JE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER JE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1032	U+0408	1112	U+0458
UTF-8	208 136	D0 88	209 152	D1 98
Numeric character reference	Ј	Ј	ј	ј
Named character reference	&Jsercy;		&jsercy;
Code page 855	143	8F	142	8E
Windows-1251	163	A3	188	BC
ISO-8859-5	168	A8	248	F8
Macintosh Cyrillic	183	B7	192	C0

External links[]

The dictionary definition of Ј at Wiktionary
The dictionary definition of ј at Wiktionary

Notes[]

^ ^a ^b Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika. 1899.
^ Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović. Pismenica serbskoga iezika, po govoru prostoga narod’a, 1814.
^ Dontchev Daskalov, Roumen; Marinov, Tchavdar (2013), Entangled Histories of the Balkans: Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies, Balkan Studies Library, BRILL, pp. 451, 454–456, ISBN 978-9004250765

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[Maretić-1] Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika. 1899.

[2] Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović. Pismenica serbskoga iezika, po govoru prostoga narod’a, 1814.

[3] Dontchev Daskalov, Roumen; Marinov, Tchavdar (2013), Entangled Histories of the Balkans: Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies, Balkan Studies Library, BRILL, pp. 451, 454–456, ISBN 978-9004250765

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