Gje

Gje

Gje

Cyrillic letter


Gje (or Dshe) (Ѓ ѓ; italics: Ѓ ѓ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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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).

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References

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  • The dictionary definition of Ѓ at Wiktionary
  • The dictionary definition of ѓ at Wiktionary



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