Je (Cyrillic)
Appearance
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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 ⟨j⟩ in "hallelujah".
History
[edit]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] and the final choice also notably edged out another expected candidate, й, used in every other standard Slavic-language Cyrillic script.
Usage
[edit]An asterisk (*) means the language does not use the letter in its orthography anymore.
Language | pronunciation | notes |
---|---|---|
Altai | voiced palatal plosive /ɟ~dʒ/ | |
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 | /j/ | |
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
[edit]- Е е : Cyrillic letter Ye
- Й й : Cyrillic letter Short I
- І і : Cyrillic letter Dotted I
- Ҋ ҋ : Cyrillic letter Short I with tail
,
: Cyrillic letter Je with belt
- J j : Latin letter J
- Y y : Latin letter Y
Computing codes
[edit]Preview | Ј | ј | ||
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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 | Ј | ј | ||
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
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ 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