Je (Cyrillic)

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]

Usage

Languagepronunciationnotes
Altaivoiced postalveolar affricate /dʒ/
Azerbaijani/j/corresponds to y in the official Latin alphabet.
Kildin Samivoiceless palatal approximant /j̊/the letter Short I with tail 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
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), which invited accusations of submission to the Latin script and Catholic Church (in Austria) from the Orthodox clergy.

Computing codes

CharacterЈј
Unicode nameCYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER JECYRILLIC SMALL LETTER JE
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode1032U+04081112U+0458
UTF-8208 136D0 88209 152D1 98
Numeric character referenceЈЈјј
Code page 8551438F1428E
Windows-1251163A3188BC
ISO-8859-5168A8248F8
Macintosh Cyrillic183B7192C0
  • The dictionary definition of Ј at Wiktionary
  • The dictionary definition of ј at Wiktionary

Notes

  1. 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 900425076X
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