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.[1]
It commonly represents the palatal approximant /j/, like the pronunciation of ⟨y⟩ in "yes".
History[edit]
The Cyrillic letter ј was introduced in the 1818 Serbian dictionary of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, on the basis of the Latin letter j.[1] Karadžić had previously used ї instead for the same sound, a usage he took from Dositej Obradović.[2]
Usage[edit]
| Language | pronunciation | notes |
|---|---|---|
| Altai | voiced palatal plosive /ɟ/ | |
| Azerbaijani | /j/ | corresponds to ⟨y⟩ in the official Latin alphabet. |
| Kildin Sami | voiceless palatal approximant /j̊/ | the letter Short I with tail (Ҋ ҋ) is also used. |
| Macedonian | /j/ | Prior to the development of the Macedonian alphabet in 1944-45, Macedonian authors used either І і or Й й.[3] |
| Orok | /j/ | |
| Ossetian | /j/ | used in the original (pre-1923) Cyrillic orthography. |
| Serbian | /j/ | 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. |
Related letters and other similar characters[edit]
- 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[edit]
| Preview | Ј | ј | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER JE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER JE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1032 | U+0408 | 1112 | U+0458 |
| UTF-8 | 208 136 | D0 88 | 209 152 | D1 98 |
| Numeric character reference | Ј |
Ј |
ј |
ј |
| Named character reference | Ј | ј | ||
| Code page 855 | 143 | 8F | 142 | 8E |
| Windows-1251 | 163 | A3 | 188 | BC |
| ISO-8859-5 | 168 | A8 | 248 | F8 |
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 183 | B7 | 192 | C0 |
External links[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika. 1899.
- ^ Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović. Pismenica serbskoga iezika, po govoru prostoga narod’a, 1814.
- ^ Dontchev Daskalov, Roumen; Marinov, Tchavdar (2013), Entangled Histories of the Balkans: Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies, Balkan Studies Library, BRILL, pp. 451, 454–456, ISBN 978-9004250765
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