Retlex of Early Croatian Long Yat in Croatian Graphy

Standard Croatian has accepted the jekavian speech of Dubrovnik, but some points have continucd presenting problems. One such is the writing of rcplacement of the Early Croatian yat ina long syllable. fora long time thcre was no unity over what the replacemcnt stood for: the sound group ije or the diphthong ie. As a result, their graphic representation was either an e (the so-called "horned e\u27\u27), an ie or ije. The general agreement today favors thc diphthong ie, so the author advocates the spelling "ie"