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Je (Ј ј; italics: ''Ј ј'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
, taken over from the Latin letter J.Maretić, Tomislav. ''Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika''. 1899. It commonly represents the
palatal approximant The voiced palatal approximant is a type of consonant used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ; the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is j, and in the Americanist phonetic notation i ...
, like the pronunciation of in "hallelujah".


History

The Cyrillic letter ј was introduced in the 1818 Serbian dictionary of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, on the basis of the Latin letter J. Karadžić had previously used ї instead for the same sound, a usage he took from
Dositej Obradović Dositej Obradović ( sr-Cyrl, Доситеј Обрадовић, ; 17 February 1739 – 7 April 1811) was a Serbian writer, biographer, diarist, philosopher, pedagogue, educational reformer, linguist and the first minister of education of Se ...
,Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović. ''Pismenica serbskoga iezika, po govoru prostoga narod’a'', 1814. 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

*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


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Notes

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