Kje (Ќ ќ or Ḱ ḱ; italics: Ќ ќ or Ḱ ḱ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, used only in the Macedonian alphabet, where it represents the voiceless palatal plosive , or the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate . Kje is the 24th letter in this alphabet. It is romanised as or sometimes or .
Key facts
- Grapheme.script
- Cyrillic
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
- Grapheme.name
- Kje (Tje)
- Grapheme.image
- Cyrillic letter Kje - uppercase and lowercase.svg
- Grapheme.imagesize
- 120px
- Grapheme.phonemes
- [], []
- Grapheme.equivalents
- Q q
- Grapheme.letter
- Ќ ќ
- Grapheme.language
- Macedonian
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Kje (Ќ ќ or Ḱ ḱ; italics: Ќ ќ or Ḱ ḱ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, used only in the Macedonian alphabet, where it represents the voiceless palatal plosive , or the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate . Kje is the 24th letter in this alphabet. It is romanised as or sometimes or .
Words with this sound are most often cognates to those in Serbo-Croatian with / and in Bulgarian with , or . 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.