[1] It commonly represents the palatal approximant /j/, like the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "hallelujah".

The Cyrillic letter ј was introduced in the 1818 Serbian dictionary of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, on the basis of the Latin letter J.

[1] Karadžić had previously used ї instead for the same sound, a usage he took from Dositej Obradović,[2] 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 orthography anymore.

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