Dje

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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 {{#invoke:IPA|main}}.

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 Template:Angle bracket or Template:Angle bracket.

HistoryEdit

Dje was constructed by request of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić.<ref name="Maretić">Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika, p. 14-15. 1899.</ref> 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;<ref name="Lalević1953">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Петар Ђорђић. Историја српске ћирилице. Београд, 1971.</ref><ref name="Maretić" /> it was designed by modification of the letter Ћ, itself a revival of the old Cyrillic letter Djerv (Ꙉ).<ref name="Maretić" /> The new letter was adopted in Karadžić's 1818 dictionary and thus entered widespread usage.<ref name="Maretić" /> 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.Template:Where Template:Citation needed

Related letters and other similar charactersEdit

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Computing codesEdit

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External linksEdit

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