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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.

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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 Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, on the basis of the Latin letter j. Karadžić had previously used ї instead for the same sound, a usage he took from Dositej Obradović.

  • 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

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    Je (Cyrillic) Wikipedia
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