Dje (Ђ ђ; italics:
''Ђ'' ''ђ'') 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 ...
.
Dje is the sixth letter of the
Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, th ...
, used in
Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia an ...
to represent the
voiced alveolo-palatal affricate
The voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are , , and , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are d_z\ a ...
. Despite being a Cyrillic letter, it was also used in Latin-based
Slovincian phonetic transcriptions, presumably with the same value.
Dje corresponds to the Latin letter
D with stroke (Đ đ) in
Gaj's Latin alphabet
Gaj's Latin alphabet ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Gajeva latinica, separator=" / ", Гајева латиница}, ), also known as ( sh-Cyrl, абецеда, ) or ( sh-Cyrl, гајица, link=no, ), is the form of the Latin script used for writing Serb ...
of Serbo-Croatian and is so transliterated. When strokes are unavailable, it is transliterated as or .
History
Dje was constructed by request of
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić.
[Maretić, Tomislav. ''Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika'', p. 14-15. 1899.] There were several proposed shapes of the letter (one by
Pavle Solarić
Pavle Solarić (7 August 1779 – 18 January 1821) was a Serbian linguist, geographer, archaeologist, poet, bibliographer and man of letters. He was one of Dositej Obradović's early students and an ardent disciple.
Biography
Solarić was born ...
, another by
Gligorije Geršić). The variant now in use was designed by
Lukijan Mušicki
Lukijan Mušicki ( sr-cyr, Лукијан Мушицки, ; 27 January 1777 – 15 March 1837) was a Serbian Orthodox bishop, writer and poet. From 1828 he was bishop of Karlovac
Karlovac () is a city in central Croatia. According to the 2011 ...
;
[Петар Ђорђић. Историја српске ћирилице. Београд, 1971.] it was designed by modification of the letter
Ћ, itself a revival of the
old Cyrillic letter
Djerv (Ꙉ).
The new letter was adopted in Karadžić's 1818 dictionary and thus entered widespread usage.
Related letters and other similar characters
*Ћ ћ:
Cyrillic letter Tshe
*Ѓ ѓ:
Cyrillic letter Gje
*Đ đ:
Latin letter D with stroke
*Ď ď:
Latin letter D with caron
*J j:
Latin letter J
*Ꙉ ꙉ:
Old Cyrillic letter Djerv
Computing codes
References
External links
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Serbian letters