Djerv (Majuscule: Ꙉ, Minuscule: ꙉ ) is one of the
Cyrillic
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alphabet letters that was used in
Old Cyrillic
The Early Cyrillic alphabet, also called classical Cyrillic or paleo-Cyrillic, is a writing system that was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the late 9th century on the basis of the Greek alphabet for the Slavic people livin ...
. It was used in many early
Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and ...
monuments to represent the sounds and (modern đ/ђ and ć/ћ).
[Maretić, Tomislav. ''Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika'', p. 14-15. 1899.] It exists in the Cyrillic Extended-B table as U+A648 and U+A649. It is the basis of the modern letters
Ћ and
Ђ; the former was in fact a direct revival of djerv and was considered the same letter.
Djerv was also commonly used in
Bosnian Cyrillic
Bosnian Cyrillic, widely known as Bosančica is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet that originated in medieval Bosnia. The term was coined at the end of the 19th century by Ćiro Truhelka. It was widely used in modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina ...
, where it was an officially used letter. When it was combined with the letters н and л it was represented for the sounds and , which are represented by
Њ and
Љ today, respectively.
Spelling Reforms and forming of the letters Ћ and Ђ
The letter Ђ was formed in 1818 by
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić after several proposals of reforming Djerv by Lukijan Mušicki and Gligorije Geršić.
However the letter Ћ (also based on djerv) was first used by
Dositej Obradović
Dositej Obradović ( sr-Cyrl, Доситеј Обрадовић; 17 February 1739 – 7 April 1811) was a Serbian writer, biographer, diarist, philosopher, pedagogue, educational reformer, linguist, polyglot and the first minister of education ...
in a direct reform of djerv.
[Maretić, Tomislav. ''Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika''. 1899.][George L Campbell and Christopher Moseley, ''The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets'', 2nd ed., Routledge, 2013, ]
p. 85.
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Computing codes
References
Cyrillic letters
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