Je (Cyrillic)

For the Cyrillic letter Е, е, see Ye (Cyrillic). Not to be confused with the Latin Letter J.

Je (Ј ј; italics: Ј ј) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, taken over from the Latin letter J.^[1]

Je
Ј ј
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	[j], [j̊], [ɟ], [dz], [dʒ]
History
Development	J j Ј ј
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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 orthography anymore.

Language	pronunciation	notes
Altai	voiced palatal plosive /ɟ~dʒ/
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

• 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

Character information

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

• 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 978-9004250765