Gje

Gje (or Dshe) (Ѓ ѓ; italics: Ѓ ѓ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Writing systemCyrillic

TypeAlphabetic

Language of originMacedonian language

Sound values[ɟ], [dʑ]

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Gje (Dshe)
Ѓ ѓ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Macedonian language
Sound values	[ɟ], [dʑ]
History
Transliterations	ǵ, Gj gj
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Ѓ is used in Macedonian to represent the voiced palatal plosive /ɟ/.^[1]

Ѓ is most commonly romanised using the Latin letter G with acute ⟨ǵ⟩. When the Socialist Republic of Macedonia was part of SFR Yugoslavia, the Macedonian ѓ (ǵ) was also transliterated as đ, ģ, gj, or dj.

Words with this letter are often cognate with Жд жд (Zhd zhd) in Bulgarian and Ђ ђ / Đ đ in Serbo-Croatian.^[2] For example, the Macedonian word for birth (раѓање is raǵanje, which in Bulgarian is раждане - razhdane, and in Serbian рађање - rađanje).