Je (Cyrillic)
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| Cyrillic letter Je | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ꙕ | Ю̂ |  |  | Ꙗ | |||
| Я̈ | Я̂ | Я̨ | Ԙ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ꙙ | Ѫ |
| Ꙛ | Ѩ | Ꙝ | Ѭ | Ѯ | Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ |
| Ѷ | Ꙟ | ||||||
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
The Cyrillic letter ј was introduced in the 1818 Serbian dictionary of
й
, used in every other standard Slavic-language Cyrillic script.
Usage
An asterisk (*) means the language does not use the letter in its orthography anymore.
| Language | pronunciation | notes |
|---|---|---|
Altai |
voiced palatal plosive /ɟ~dz/ | |
| 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 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
- 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
, 
: Cyrillic letter Je with belt- J j : Latin letter J
- Y y : Latin letter Y
Computing codes
| 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
Notes
- ^ 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.
- ISBN 978-9004250765
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