Gje

Gje (Dshe)
Gje (Dshe)
Ѓ ѓ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Macedonian language
Sound values	[ɟ], [dʑ]
History
Transliterations	ǵ, Gj gj
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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: Latin letter D with caron

Computing codes

Character information
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	&GJcy;		&gjcy;
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.

External links

The dictionary definition of Ѓ at Wiktionary
The dictionary definition of ѓ at Wiktionary

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[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.

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