Kje (or Tje) (Ќ ќ; italics: Ќ ќ) 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/. Kje is the 24th letter In this alphabet. It is romanized as ⟨ḱ⟩ or sometimes ⟨kj⟩.
Words with this sound are most often cognates to those in Serbian with ⟨ћ⟩/⟨ć⟩, in Bulgarian with ⟨щ⟩, ⟨т⟩ or ⟨к⟩ and in Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin with ⟨ć⟩. For example, Macedonian ноќ (noḱ, night) corresponds to Serbian ноћ/noć, Bulgarian нощ and Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin noć.
Related letters and other similar characters
- К к : Cyrillic letter Ka
- Ѓ ѓ : Cyrillic letter Gje
Computing codes
See also
External links
- The dictionary definition of Ќ at Wiktionary
- The dictionary definition of ќ at Wiktionary