Je (Ј ј; italics:
''Ј ј'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking 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, or yod, 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 n ...
, like the pronunciation of 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.
Karadžić had previously used
ї instead for the same sound, a usage he took from
Dositej Obradović,
[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
Related letters and other similar characters
*Е е :
Cyrillic letter Ye
*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
External links
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Notes
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