Kje (Ќ ќ; italics:
''Ќ ќ'') 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 ...
, used only in the
Macedonian
Macedonian most often refers to someone or something from or related to Macedonia.
Macedonian(s) may specifically refer to:
People Modern
* Macedonians (ethnic group), a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North Ma ...
alphabet, where it represents the
voiceless palatal plosive
The voiceless palatal plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in some vocal languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is c.
If distinction is neces ...
, or the
voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate
The voiceless 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 t_s ...
. Kje is the 24th letter in this alphabet. It is romanised as or sometimes or .
Words with this sound are most often cognates to those 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 ...
with / and in
Bulgarian with , or . For example, Macedonian ноќ (''noḱ'', night) corresponds to Serbo-Croatian ноћ/''noć'', and Bulgarian нощ (''nosht''). The common surname ending ''-ić'' is spelled -иќ in Macedonian.
Related letters and other similar characters
*Ḱ ḱ :
Latin letter K with acute
*Ķ ķ :
Latin letter K with cedilla
*К к :
Cyrillic letter Ka
*Ћ ћ:
Cyrillic letter Tshe
*Ѓ ѓ :
Cyrillic letter Gje
*Ť ť :
Latin letter T with caron
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Computing codes
See also
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Iotation
In Slavic languages, iotation (, ) is a form of palatalization that occurs when a consonant comes into contact with a palatal approximant from the succeeding phoneme. The is represented by iota (ι) in the Cyrillic alphabet and the Greek al ...
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