Je (Cyrillic)

Je
Ј ј
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Sound values[j], [ȷ̊], [ɟ], [dz], [dʒ]
History
Development
TransliterationsJ j

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 ⟨j⟩ 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.[1] Karadžić had previously used ї instead for the same sound, a usage he took from Dositej Obradović,[2] 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.

Languagepronunciationnotes
Altaivoiced palatal plosive /ɟ~dʒ/
Azerbaijani/j/corresponds to ⟨y⟩ in the official Latin alphabet.
Kildin Samivoiceless 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.
Suret*/j/Used in the Cyrillic script created during the USSR's Cyrillization program of the 1930s to 1950s.

Computing codes

Character information
PreviewЈј
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER JE CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER JE
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode1032U+04081112U+0458
UTF-8208 136D0 88209 152D1 98
Numeric character referenceЈЈјј
Named character referenceЈј
Code page 8551438F1428E
Windows-1251163A3188BC
ISO-8859-5168A8248F8
Macintosh Cyrillic183B7192C0
  • Wiktionary logo The dictionary definition of Ј at Wiktionary
  • Wiktionary logo The dictionary definition of ј at Wiktionary

Notes

  1. 1 2 Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika. 1899.
  2. ↑ Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović. Pismenica serbskoga iezika, po govoru prostoga narod’a, 1814.
  3. ↑ 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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