Kje

Kje (Ќќ or Ḱ ḱ; italics: Ќќ 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/. Kje is the 24th letter in this alphabet. It is romanised as ⟨ḱ⟩ or sometimes ⟨ķ⟩ or ⟨kj⟩.

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.

Related letters and other similar characters

• 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

Computing codes

See also

• Iotation

External links

• The dictionary definition ofЌat Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition ofќat Wiktionary