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{{Infobox grapheme | script = Cyrillic | type = Alphabet | typedesc = ic | name = Djerv ({{Script|Cyrs|ꙉєрвъ}}) | image = Cyrillic letter Djerv.svg | imagealt = | phonemes = /dʑ/, /tɕ/ | number = | fam1 = | letter = Ꙉ ꙉ | children = Ћ ћ }}
'''Djerv''' or '''Đerv''' ({{IPAc-en|dʒ|ɝ|v}}, {{respell|JƏRV}}; 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 {{IPA|/dʑ/}} and {{IPA|/tɕ/}} (modern đ/ђ and ć/ћ).<ref name="Maretić">Maretić, Tomislav. ''Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika'', p. 14-15. 1899.</ref> 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.<ref name="Maretić" />
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 {{IPA|/ɲ/}} and {{IPA|/ʎ/}}, which are represented by Њ and Љ today, respectively.
It can be transliterated as Ǵ.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lunt |first1=Horace |title=Old Church Slavonic Grammar |date=1974 |publisher=Mouton |location=The Hague |page=16}}</ref>
==Spelling reforms and forming of the letters Ћ and Ђ== [[File:Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Serbian Alphabet Serbian Language Serbian Literatue Saint Cyril and Metodius Illyrian joint.jpg|left|thumb|Serbian Cyrillic script, with djerv. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 16th century]] The letter Ђ was formed in 1818 by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić after several proposals of reforming Djerv by Lukijan Mušicki and Gligorije Geršić.<ref name="Lalević1953">{{cite book|last=Lalević|first=Miodrag S.|title=Potsetnik iz srpskohrvatskog jezika i pravopisa: s pravopisnim i jezičkim savetnikom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dWpEAAAAIAAJ|year=1953|publisher=Rad|page=75|quote= Облик му је у Вуковој азбуци дао песник Лукијан Мушицки}}</ref><ref>Петар Ђорђић. Историја српске ћирилице. Београд, 1971.</ref><ref name="Maretić" /> However the letter Ћ (also based on djerv) was first used by Dositej Obradović in a direct reform of djerv.<ref name="Maretić2">Maretić, Tomislav. ''Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika''. 1899.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Campbell |first=George L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6lQwRD2Cb8EC&pg=PA85 |title=The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets |last2=Moseley |first2=Christopher |date=2013-05-07 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-22296-3 |pages=85 |language=en}}</ref>
==Computing codes==
{{charmap |A648|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter Djerv |A649|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter Djerv }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * {{cite journal |date=2020 |first=Вања С. |last=Станишић |title=Загонетке старословенског 'ђерва' |language=sr |trans-title=Puzzles of the Old Slavonic 'Đerv' |pages=113-124 |url=https://doi.fil.bg.ac.rs/volume.php?pt=journals&issue=sj-2020-25-1&i=10 |doi=10.18485/sj.2020.25.1.10 |doi-access=free |journal=Српски језик: студије српске и словенске |issn=0354-9259 |volume=25 |issue=1}} * {{cite journal |date=2000-06-26 |first=Mirko |last=Bobaš |title=Uporaba slova đerv ĵ u matici krštenih iz kraljeve sutjeske 1641-1727 |language=sh |trans-title=The use of the letter đerv ĵ in 'Matica krštenih' in Kraljeva Sutjeska 1641-1727 |pages=1–14 |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/157412 |journal=Filologija |issn=0449-363X |issue=33}}
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