Kje (Ќ ќ or Ḱ ḱ; italics:
''Ќ ќ'' or ''Ḱ ḱ'') 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 ...
, used only in the
Macedonian 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.
Voiceless palato-alveol ...
, 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_ ...
. 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 known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually i ...
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
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of ...
*К к :
Cyrillic letter Ka
*К̀ к̀ :
Cyrillic letter Ka with grave
*Ћ ћ:
Cyrillic letter Tshe
*Ѓ ѓ :
Cyrillic letter Gje
*Ť ť :
Latin letter T with caron
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 the palatal approximant from the succeeding phoneme. The is represented by iota (ι) in the early Cyrillic alphabet and the Gre ...
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References
Cyrillic letters
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