Sje
Letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
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Sje (С́ с́; italics: С́ с́) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, formed from the Cyrillic Es (С с С с) with the addition of an acute accent. It is used in the Montenegrin alphabet, where it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant /ɕ/. It corresponds to the Latin Ś.[1] It is not to be confused with the Latin Ć, which represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate /t͡ɕ/ (the sound of Ћ).
| Sje | |
|---|---|
| С́ с́ | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [ɕ] |
Origins
The first proposal for the codification of /ɕ/ in Montenegrin comes from 1884. It was proposed by Lazar Tomanović, Montenegrin attorney, journalist and politician. He proposed the use of a Cyrillic digraph шј to represent the sound. He equated the digraph with the Polish letter ś.[2] The first instance of usage of the accented Cyrillic letter с́ was in 1926 by Danilo Vušović.[3] It came into official use in mid-2009, with the adoption of the Law on the Official Language in Montenegro. Previously, it was included in a proposal for the Montenegrin alphabet by Dr. Vojislav Nikčević in the 1970s that included 33 letters instead of present-day 32.
Computing codes
Being a relatively recent letter, not present in any legacy 8-bit Cyrillic encoding, the letter С́ is not represented directly by a precomposed character in Unicode either; it has to be composed as С+◌́ (U+0301).
| Preview | С | с | ́ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ES | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES | COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT | |||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1057 | U+0421 | 1089 | U+0441 | 769 | U+0301 |
| UTF-8 | 208 161 | D0 A1 | 209 129 | D1 81 | 204 129 | CC 81 |
| Numeric character reference | С | С | с | с | ́ | ́ |
| Named character reference | С | с | ||||
See also
- Ś ś : Latin letter Ś
- Ш ш : Cyrillic letter Sha
- З́ з́ : Cyrillic letter Zje
- Щ щ: Cyrillic letter Shcha
- Ć ć : Latin letter C with acute
- Cyrillic characters in Unicode