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'Je' (Ј, ј) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian, Macedonian, Azeri, and Altai languages. It replaced the traditional Cyrillic accented и (й) in Vuk Karadžić's alphabet, which invited accusations of submission to the Latin script and Catholic Church (in Austria) from the Orthodox clergy.

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In Serbian, Macedonian and Azeri this letter is pronounced as the palatal approximant, .
It is also used in the Altai language to represent the voiced postalveolar affricate, .