Djerv (majuscule: Ꙉ, minuscule: ꙉ) is one of the Cyrillic alphabet letters that was used in Old Cyrillic. It was used in many early Serbian monuments to represent the sounds /dʑ/ and /tɕ/ (modern đ/ђ and ć/ћ).[1] It exists in the Cyrillic Extended-B table as U+A648 and U+A649. It is the basis of the modern letters Ћ and Ђ; the former was in fact a direct revival of djerv and was considered the same letter.[1]
Djerv is also commonly used in Serbian Cyrillic, where it was an officially used letter. When it was placed before the letters н and л it was represented for the sounds /ɲ/ and /ʎ/, which are represented by Њ and Љ today, respectively.
It can be transliterated as Ǵ.[2]
Spelling Reforms and forming of the letters Ћ and Ђ
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The letter Ђ was formed in 1818 by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić after several proposals of reforming Djerv by Lukijan Mušicki and Gligorije Geršić.[3][4][1] However the letter Ћ (also based on djerv) was first used by Dositej Obradović in a direct reform of djerv.[5][6]
Computing codes
[edit]Preview | Ꙉ | ꙉ | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DJERV | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DJERV | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 42568 | U+A648 | 42569 | U+A649 |
UTF-8 | 234 153 136 | EA 99 88 | 234 153 137 | EA 99 89 |
Numeric character reference | Ꙉ |
Ꙉ |
ꙉ |
ꙉ |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika, p. 14-15. 1899.
- ^ Lunt, Horace (1974). Old Church Slavonic Grammar. The Hague: Mouton. p. 16.
- ^ Lalević, Miodrag S. (1953). Potsetnik iz srpskohrvatskog jezika i pravopisa: s pravopisnim i jezičkim savetnikom. Rad. p. 75.
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- ^ Петар Ђорђић. Историја српске ћирилице. Београд, 1971.
- ^ Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika. 1899.
- ^ Campbell, George L.; Moseley, Christopher (2013-05-07). The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets. Routledge. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-135-22296-3.