Je (Cyrillic)

Je is a letter of the Cyrillic script, taken over from the Latin letter J.
It commonly represents the palatal approximant, like the pronunciation of in "hallelujah".

History

The Cyrillic letter ј was introduced in the 1818 Serbian dictionary of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, on the basis of the Latin letter J. Karadžić had previously used ї instead for the same sound, a usage he took from Dositej Obradović, and the final choice also notably edged out another expected candidate, й, used in every other standard Slavic-language Cyrillic script.

An asterisk means the language does not use the letter in its writing anymore.

Language	pronunciation	notes
Altai	voiced palatal plosive
Azerbaijani		corresponds to in the official Latin alphabet.
Kildin Sami	voiceless palatal approximant	the letter Short I with tail is also used.
Macedonian		Prior to the development of the Macedonian alphabet in 1944–45, Macedonian authors used either І і or Й й.
Orok
Ossetian*		used in the original Cyrillic orthography.
Serbian		in Vuk Karadžić's alphabet, the letter Je replaced the traditional letter Short I, which invited accusations of submission to the Latin script and Catholic Church from the Orthodox clergy.
Suret*		Used in the Cyrillic script created during the USSR's Cyrillization program of the 1930s to 1950s.