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Revision as of 17:30, 5 April 2009
Je (Ј, ј) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian, Macedonian, Azeri, and Altai languages. It replaced the traditional Cyrillic accented и (й) in Vuk Karadžić's alphabet, which invited accusations of submission to the Latin script and Catholic Church (in Austria) from the Orthodox clergy.
Phonetic value
In Serbian, Macedonian and Azeri this letter represents the palatal approximant, /j/. Since the letters Я (ya), Є (ye) ,Ё (yo), Ї (yi) and Ю (yu) are not used in these languages, they are written separately as Ja, Je, Jo, Jи and Jy.
It is also used in the Altai language to represent the voiced postalveolar affricate, /dʒ/.