Dzhe or Gea (Џ џ; italics:
''Џ џ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking co ...
used in
Macedonian and
varieties
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of
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 an ...
(
Bosnian,
Montenegrin, and
Serbian) to represent the
voiced postalveolar affricate
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, like the pronunciation of j in “jump”.
Dzhe corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the
digraphs дж or чж, or to the letters
Che with descender
Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч ). In the ISO 9 system of romanization, Che with descender is transliterated using the Latin letter ...
(Ҷ ҷ),
Che with vertical stroke
Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Che (Cyrillic), Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч ''Ч ч'').
Che with vertical stroke is used in the alphabet of the Azeri l ...
(Ҹ ҹ),
Khakassian Che
Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч ).
It is used in the alphabet of the Khakas language, as its name suggests, and represents the voiced po ...
(Ӌ ӌ),
Zhe with breve
Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, created by Soviet linguists for the cyrillization of non-Slavic languages. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж ) by an addition of a Breve.
Z ...
(Ӂ ӂ),
Zhe with diaeresis
Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж ).
Zhe with diaeresis is used only in the alphabet of the Udmurt language, where it represents the v ...
(Ӝ ӝ), or
Zhje
Zhje or Zhe with descender (Җ җ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж ) with an addition of a descender on its right leg.
Zhje is used in the alphabets of the Dun ...
(Җ җ).
In the Latin version of
Serbo-Croatian
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, it corresponds with the digraph dž which, like the digraphs lj and nj, is treated as a single letter, including in crossword puzzles and for purposes of
collation
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.
Abkhaz uses it to represent the
voiced retroflex affricate
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. The ligature џь is used to represent the sound.
History
The letter Dzhe was first used in the 15th-century
Romanian Cyrillic alphabet
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Romanian (obsolete spellings: Rumanian or Roumanian; autonym: ''limba română'' , or ''românește ...
, as a modified form of the letter ч.
[Maretić, Tomislav. ''Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika''. 1899.] Serbian scribes began using it in the 17th century.
[Petar Đorđić, "Istorija srpske ćirilice", Belgrade 1970, p. 203] Vuk Karadžić
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić ( sr-Cyrl, Вук Стефановић Караџић, ; 6 November 1787 (26 October OS)7 February 1864) was a Serbian philologist, anthropologist and linguist. He was one of the most important reformers of the moder ...
included it in his
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking co ...
reform, when the letter entered widespread use.
Related letters and other similar characters
*Dž :
Digraph Dž
*J j :
Latin letter J
*G g :
Latin letter soft G, the romanization and Latin equivalent of in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet
*Ӂ ӂ :
Cyrillic letter Ӂ
*Ӝ ӝ :
Cyrillic letter Ӝ
*Җ җ :
Cyrillic letter Җ
*Ҷ ҷ :
Cyrillic letter Ҷ
*Ӌ ӌ :
Cyrillic letter Ӌ
*Ҹ ҹ :
Cyrillic letter Ҹ
References
External links
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