Kje (original) (raw)

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Cyrillic letter

This article is about the Cyrillic letter. For the Singaporean road abbreviated KJE, see Kranji Expressway. For the Latin letter, see Ḱ.

Kje (Tje)
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	[c], [tɕ]
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Kje (Ќ ќ or Ḱ ḱ; italics: Ќ ќ or Ḱ ḱ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, used only in the Macedonian alphabet, where it represents the voiceless palatal plosive /c/, or the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate /tɕ/.[1] Kje is the 24th letter in this alphabet. It is romanised as ⟨ḱ⟩ or sometimes ⟨ķ⟩ or ⟨kj⟩.[2]

Words with this sound are most often cognates to those in Serbo-Croatian with ⟨ћ⟩/⟨ć⟩ and in Bulgarian with ⟨щ⟩, ⟨т⟩ or ⟨к⟩. For example, Macedonian ноќ (noḱ, night) corresponds to Serbo-Croatian ноћ/noć, and Bulgarian нощ (nosht). The common surname ending -ić is spelled -иќ in Macedonian.

• Ḱ ḱ : Latin letter K with acute
• Ķ ķ : Latin letter K with cedilla
• К к : Cyrillic letter Ka
• К̀ к̀ : Cyrillic letter Ka with grave
• Ћ ћ: Cyrillic letter Tshe
• Ѓ ѓ : Cyrillic letter Gje
• Ť ť : Latin letter T with caron

Character information

• Iotation

1. ^ Corbett, Professor Greville; Comrie, Professor Bernard (September 2003). The Slavonic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-86137-6.
2. ^ Campbell, George L.; Moseley, Christopher (2013-05-07). The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-22296-3.