Je (Cyrillic)
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Je (Ј ј; italics: Ј ј) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, taken over from the Latin letter J.<ref name="Maretić">Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika. 1899.</ref>
It commonly represents the palatal approximant Template:IPA, like the pronunciation of Template:Angbr 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.<ref name="Maretić" /> Karadžić had previously used ї instead for the same sound, a usage he took from Dositej Obradović,<ref>Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović. Pismenica serbskoga iezika, po govoru prostoga narod’a, 1814.</ref> 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 writing anymore.
| Language | pronunciation | notes |
|---|---|---|
| Altai | voiced palatal plosive Template:IPA | |
| Azerbaijani | Template:IPA | corresponds to Template:Angbr in the official Latin alphabet. |
| Kildin Sami | voiceless palatal approximant Template:Ipa | the letter Short I with tail (Ҋ ҋ) is also used. |
| Macedonian | Template:IPA | Prior to the development of the Macedonian alphabet in 1944–45, Macedonian authors used either І і or Й й.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> |
| Orok | Template:IPA | |
| Ossetian* | Template:IPA | used in the original (pre-1923) Cyrillic orthography. |
| Serbian | Template:IPA | in Vuk Karadžić's alphabet, the letter Je replaced the traditional letter Short I (Й й), which invited accusations of submission to the Latin script and Catholic Church (in Austria) from the Orthodox clergy. |
| Suret* | Template:IPA | Used in the Cyrillic script created during the USSR's Cyrillization program of the 1930s to 1950s. |
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
- File:Cyrillic capital letter Je with inverted belt.svg, File:Cyrillic letter small capital Je with inverted belt.svg : Cyrillic letter Je with belt
- J j : Latin letter J
- Y y : Latin letter Y
