Djerv or Đerv (, ; 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 and (modern đ/ђ and ć/ћ). 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.
Key facts
- Grapheme.script
- Cyrillic
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
- Grapheme.name
- Djerv ()
- Grapheme.image
- Cyrillic letter Djerv.svg
- Grapheme.phonemes
- /dʑ/, /tɕ/
- Grapheme.letter
- Ꙉ ꙉ
- Grapheme.children
- Ћ ћ
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Djerv or Đerv (, ; 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 and (modern đ/ђ and ć/ћ). 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.
Djerv is also commonly used in Serbian Cyrillic, where it was an officially used letter. When placed before the letters н and л it represented the sounds and , which are represented by Њ and Љ today, respectively.