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Cyrillic letter used in Serbian From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dje (Ђ ђ; italics: Ђ ђ) 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 /d͡ʑ/.
Dje corresponds to the Latin letter D with stroke (Đ đ) in Gaj's Latin alphabet of Serbo-Croatian and is so transliterated. When strokes are unavailable, it is transliterated as ⟨Dj dj⟩ or ⟨Ď ď⟩.
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History
Dje was constructed by request of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić.[1] 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;[2][3][1] it was designed by modification of the letter Ћ, itself a revival of the old Cyrillic letter Djerv (Ꙉ).[1] The new letter was adopted in Karadžić's 1818 dictionary and thus entered widespread usage.[1] There was also a Д and Ь ligature variant that has not been added in Unicode as a character, and was used before Dje took its current form.[where?][citation needed]
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Related letters and other similar characters
- Ћ ћ: Cyrillic letter Tshe
- Ѓ ѓ: Cyrillic letter Gje
- Đ đ: Latin letter D with stroke
- Ď ď: Latin letter D with caron
- J j: Latin letter J
- Ꙉ ꙉ: Old Cyrillic letter Djerv
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