For the Cyrillic letter Е, е, see
Ye (Cyrillic). Not to be confused with the Latin Letter
J.
Cyrillic letter
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] and the final choice also notably edged out another expected candidate, й, used in every other standard Slavic-language Cyrillic script.
Usage
An asterisk (*) means the language does not use the letter in its orthography anymore.
Related letters and other similar characters
Computing codes
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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