Cyrillic letter Dje
Phonetic usage:
The Cyrillic script
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Dje (? ?; italics: ? ?) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Dje is the sixth letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, used in Serbo-Croatian to represent the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate /d?/.

Dje corresponds to the Latin letter D with stroke (? ?) in Gaj's Latin alphabet of Serbo-Croatian and is so transliterated. When strokes are unavailable, it is transliterated as ⟨Dj dj⟩. Example of use of this sound would be J sound in the name Django.

History

Dje was constructed by request of Vuk Stefanovi? Karad?i?.^[1] There were several proposed shapes of the letter (one by Pavle Solari?, another by Gligorije Ger?i?). The variant now in use was designed by Lukijan Mu?icki;^[2][3][1] it was designed by modification of the letter ?, itself a revival of the old Cyrillic letter Djerv (?).^[1] The new letter was adopted in Karad?i?'s 1818 dictionary and thus entered widespread usage.^[1]

Related letters and other similar characters

• ? ?: Cyrillic letter Tshe
• ? ?: Cyrillic letter Gje
• ? ?: Latin letter D with stroke
• J j: Latin letter J
• ? ?: Old Cyrillic letter Djerv

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References

External links

• The dictionary definition of ? at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of ? at Wiktionary