Dje
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Dje is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
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Dje is the sixth letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
and of the Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet
, used in the Serbian language
to represent the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate /dʑ/, similar to the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jet".
Dje corresponds to the Latin letter D with stroke
(Đ đ) in the Serbian Latin alphabet, and is transliterated thus. It is sometimes transliterated as ⟨dj⟩, although many consider this to be incorrect.
. There were several proposed shapes of the letter (one by Pavle Solarić, another by Gligorije Geršić). The variant now in use was designed by Lukijan Mušicki
as a rotated and horizontally crossed g-shaped italic Cyrillic letter De
.
The letter was also used in writing the Serbo-Croatian language
prior to the dissolution of Yugoslavia
.
The Macedonian
letter Gje
(Ѓ ѓ) is considered a cognate to Dje.
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
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Dje is the sixth letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script for the Serbian language, developed in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two standard modern alphabets used to write the Serbian language, the other being Latin...
and of the Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet
Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet
The Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet or Азбука is the modern alphabet officially proposed for Cyrillic writing of the Montenegrin language.Its first version was originally developed by Vojislav P...
, used in the Serbian language
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
to represent the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate /dʑ/, similar to the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jet".
Dje corresponds to the Latin letter D with stroke
D with stroke
Đ , formed from D with the addition of a bar or stroke through the letter. This is the same modification that was used to create eth , but eth is based on an insular variant of d while đ is based on its usual upright shape...
(Đ đ) in the Serbian Latin alphabet, and is transliterated thus. It is sometimes transliterated as ⟨dj⟩, although many consider this to be incorrect.
History
Dje was constructed by request of Vuk Stefanović KaradžićVuk Stefanovic Karadžic
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić was a Serbian philolog and linguist, the major reformer of the Serbian language, and deserves, perhaps, for his collections of songs, fairy tales, and riddles to be called the father of the study of Serbian folklore. He was the author of the first Serbian dictionary...
. There were several proposed shapes of the letter (one by Pavle Solarić, another by Gligorije Geršić). The variant now in use was designed by Lukijan Mušicki
Lukijan Mušicki
Lukijan Mušicki was a Serbian poet, prose writer, and polyglot.Mušicki was a monk, and later abbot of a monastery in Fruška Gora, whose religious poetry in Church Slavonic, a language distant from the spoken koine, but the only literary language of his time, was recognised and valued by the...
as a rotated and horizontally crossed g-shaped italic Cyrillic letter De
De (Cyrillic)
De is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.De commonly represents the voiced dental plosive , like the pronunciation of ⟨d⟩ in admit.De is romanized using the Latin letter D.-History:...
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The letter was also used in writing the Serbo-Croatian language
Serbo-Croatian language
Serbo-Croatian or Serbo-Croat, less commonly Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian , is a South Slavic language with multiple standards and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro...
prior to the dissolution of Yugoslavia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...
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The Macedonian
Macedonian alphabet
The orthography of Macedonian includes an alphabet , which is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script, as well as language-specific conventions of spelling and punctuation....
letter Gje
Gje
Gje is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It is used in Macedonian to represent the voiced palatal plosive or the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate , similar to the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jet"....
(Ѓ ѓ) is considered a cognate to Dje.
Related letters and other similar characters
- Ћ ћ : Cyrillic letter TsheTsheTshe is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used only in the Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin alphabets, where it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate , somewhat like the pronunciation of ⟨ch⟩ in "chew". The sound of Tshe is produced from the voiceless alveolar plosive by iotation....
- Ѓ ѓ : Cyrillic letter GjeGjeGje is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It is used in Macedonian to represent the voiced palatal plosive or the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate , similar to the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jet"....
- Đ đ : Latin letter D with stroke
- J j : Latin letter JJĴ or ĵ is a letter in Esperanto orthography representing the sound .While Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for its four postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavic alphabets, the base letters are Romano-Germanic...
: Old Cyrillic letter DjervDjervDjerv is one of the Cyrillic alphabet letters that was used in Old Cyrillic. It exists in the Cyrillic Extended-B table as U+A648 and U+A649. It is similar to Tshe and Dje....
Computing codes
| character | Ђ | ђ | ||
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DJE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DJE | ||
| character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems... |
1026 | 0402 | 1106 | 0452 |
| UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks... |
208 130 | D0 82 | 209 146 | D1 92 |
| Numeric character reference Numeric character reference A numeric character reference is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-related markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the Universal Character Set of Unicode... |
Ђ | Ђ | ђ | ђ |
| Code page 855 Code page 855 Code page 855 is a code page used under MS-DOS to write Cyrillic script. This code page is not used much.-Code page layout:... |
129 | 81 | 128 | 80 |
| Windows-1251 Windows-1251 Windows-1251 is a popular 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet such as Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic and other languages... |
128 | 80 | 144 | 90 |
| ISO-8859-5 | 162 | A2 | 242 | F2 |
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 171 | AB | 172 | AC |