Latin letter J
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The Latin letter J is a modern alphabetic character that evolved from the letter I and is used in many languages to represent a consonantal sound, such as the English /dʒ/.
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin alphabet letter
ⓘ
consonant letter ⓘ grapheme ⓘ |
| alphabeticPosition | 10 ⓘ |
| ASCIICode | 74 ⓘ |
| ASCIICodeLowercase | 106 ⓘ |
| diacriticForms |
Ĵ
ⓘ
ǰ ⓘ ȷ ⓘ Ɉ ⓘ ɉ ⓘ |
| directionality | left-to-right ⓘ |
| distinctLetterSince | Renaissance period ⓘ |
| evolvedFrom | Latin letter I ⓘ |
| historicalOrigin | medieval variant of I ⓘ |
| ISOBasicLatinPosition | 10 ⓘ |
| lowercaseForm | j ⓘ |
| nameInEnglish | jay ⓘ |
| representsPhoneme |
/dʒ/ in English
ⓘ
/dʒ/ in Italian (mainly in loanwords) ⓘ /dʒ/ in many languages using English-based orthography ⓘ /j/ in German ⓘ /j/ in many Slavic languages using Latin script ⓘ /x/ or /h/ in Spanish (as in "José") ⓘ /ʒ/ in French (before certain vowels) ⓘ /ʒ/ in Romanian (in some loanwords) ⓘ /ʒ/ or /ʐ/ in Portuguese (in some positions and dialects) ⓘ /ʝ/ in some Spanish dialects ⓘ |
| script | Latin script ⓘ |
| typicalCategoryInEnglish | voiced postalveolar affricate ⓘ |
| UnicodeCodePoint | U+004A ⓘ |
| UnicodeCodePointLowercase | U+006A ⓘ |
| uppercaseForm | J ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
Bosnian
ⓘ
Croatian ⓘ Czech ⓘ Danish ⓘ Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ Esperanto NERFINISHED ⓘ Finnish ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Hungarian ⓘ Indonesian ⓘ Interlingua NERFINISHED ⓘ Italian ⓘ Norwegian ⓘ Polish ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Romanian ⓘ Serbian (Latin script) ⓘ Slovak ⓘ Spanish ⓘ Swedish ⓘ Turkish ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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