Gje (or Dshe) (Ѓ ѓ; italics: Ѓ ѓ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
Ѓ is used in Macedonian to represent the voiced palatal plosive /ɟ/.[1]
Ѓ is most commonly romanised using the Latin letter G with acute ⟨ǵ⟩. When the Socialist Republic of Macedonia was part of SFR Yugoslavia, the Macedonian ѓ (ǵ) was also transliterated as đ, ģ, gj, or dj.
Words with this letter are often cognate with Жд жд (Zhd zhd) in Bulgarian and Ђ ђ / Đ đ in Serbo-Croatian.[2] For example, the Macedonian word for birth (раѓање is raǵanje, which in Bulgarian is раждане - razhdane, and in Serbian рађање - rađanje).
Related letters and other similar characters
- Ģ ģ: Latin letter G with cedilla - a Latvian letter
- Г г: Cyrillic letter Ge
- Ђ ђ: Cyrillic letter Dje
- Ќ ќ: Cyrillic letter Kje
- Ď ď
Computing codes
| Preview | Ѓ | ѓ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GJE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GJE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1027 | U+0403 | 1107 | U+0453 |
| UTF-8 | 208 131 | D0 83 | 209 147 | D1 93 |
| Numeric character reference | Ѓ |
Ѓ |
ѓ |
ѓ |
| Named character reference | Ѓ | ѓ | ||
| Code page 855 | 131 | 83 | 130 | 82 |
| Windows-1251 | 129 | 81 | 131 | 83 |
| ISO-8859-5 | 163 | A3 | 243 | F3 |
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 174 | AE | 175 | AF |
References
- ^ Selvelli, Giustina (2021). The Alphabet of Discord : the Ideologization of Writing Systems on the Balkans since the Breakup of Multiethnic Empires. Berlin: Ibidem Verlag. p. 46. ISBN 978-3-8382-1537-2. OCLC 1252961496.
- ^ Kahl, Thede; Kramer, Johannes; Prifti, Elton (2015-03-24). Romanica et Balcanica: Wolfgang Dahmen zum 65. Geburtstag (in German). Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München AVM. pp. 370–371. ISBN 978-3-95477-036-6.
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