Djerv ( majuscule: Ꙉ, minuscule: ꙉ) is one of the Cyrillic alphabet letters that was used in Old Cyrillic. It was used in many early Serbo-Croatian 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 was 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]
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]
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 |
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