Djerv

{{short description|Cyrillic letter}}

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|script = Cyrillic

|type = Alphabet

|typedesc = ic

|name = Djerv, {{Script|Cyrs|ꙉєрвъ}} (Early Cyrillic alphabet)

|image = Cyrillic letter Djerv.svg

|imagesize = 120px

|imagealt =

|phonemes = {{IPA|/dʑ/}}, {{IPA|/tɕ/}}

|number =

|fam1 =

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Djerv (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).Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika, p. 14-15. 1899. 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.

Djerv is also commonly used in Serbian Cyrillic, where it was an officially used letter. When it was placed before the letters н and л it was represented for the sounds {{IPA|/ɲ/}} and {{IPA|/ʎ/}}, which are represented by Њ and Љ today, respectively.

It can be transliterated as Ǵ.{{cite book |last1=Lunt |first1=Horace |title=Old Church Slavonic Grammar |date=1974 |publisher=Mouton |location=The Hague |page=16}}