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J, or j, is the tenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its usual name in English is jay (pronounced /ˈdʒeɪ/), with a now-uncommon variant jy /ˈdʒaɪ/.[1][2] When used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the y sound, it may be called yod or jod (pronounced /ˈjɒd/ or /ˈjoʊd/).[3]
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History
The letter J used to be used as the swash letter I, used for the letter I at the end of Roman numerals when following another I, as in XXIIJ or xxiij instead of XXIII or xxiii for the Roman numeral twenty-three. A distinctive usage emerged in Middle High German.[4] Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478–1550) was the first to explicitly distinguish I and J as representing separate sounds, in his Ɛpistola del Trissino de le lettere nuωvamente aggiunte ne la lingua italiana ("Trissino's epistle about the letters recently added in the Italian language") of 1524.[5] Originally, 'I' and 'J' were different shapes for the same letter, both equally representing /i/, /iː/, and /j/; however, Romance languages developed new sounds (from former /j/ and /ɡ/) that came to be represented as 'I' and 'J'; therefore, English J, acquired from the French J, has a sound value quite different from /j/ (which represents the initial sound in the English language word "yet").
Pronunciation and use
English
In English, Template:Angbr most commonly represents the affricate Template:IPAlink. In Old English, /dʒ/ was represented orthographically with Template:Angbr and Template:Angbr.[7] Middle English scribes began to use Template:Angbr (later Template:Angbr) to represent word-initial /dʒ/ under the influence of Old French, which had a similar phoneme deriving from Latin /j/ (for example, iest and, later jest); the same sound in other positions could be spelled as Template:Angbr (for example, hedge).[7] The first English language book to make a clear distinction in writing between Template:Angbr and Template:Angbr was the King James Bible 1st Revision Cambridge 1629 and an English grammar book published in 1633.[8]
Later, many other uses of Template:Angbr (later Template:Angbr) were added in loanwords from French and other languages (e.g. adjoin, junta). In loanwords such as bijou or Dijon, Template:Angbr may represent /ʒ/, as in modern French. In some loanwords, including raj, Azerbaijan, Taj Mahal, and Beijing, the regular pronunciation /dʒ/ is actually closer to the native pronunciation, making the use of /ʒ/ an instance of hyperforeignism, a type of hypercorrection.[9] Occasionally, Template:Angbr represents the original /j/ sound, as in Hallelujah and fjord (see Yodh for details). In words of Spanish origin, such as jalapeño, English speakers usually pronounce Template:Angbr as the voiceless glottal fricative /h/, an approximation of the Spanish pronunciation of Template:Angbr as the voiceless velar fricative Template:IPAblink (some varieties of Spanish also use glottal Template:IPAblink).
In English, Template:Angbr is the fourth least frequently used letter in words, being more frequent only than Template:Angbr, Template:Angbr, and Template:Angbr. It is, however, quite common in proper nouns, especially personal names.
Other languages
Germanic and Eastern-European languages
The great majority of Germanic languages, such as German, Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, use Template:Angbr for the palatal approximant Template:IPAslink, which is usually represented by the letter Template:Angbr in English. Notable exceptions are English, Scots and (to a lesser degree) Luxembourgish. Template:Angbr also represents Template:IPAslink in Albanian, and those Uralic, Slavic and Baltic languages that use the Latin alphabet, such as Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Polish, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Latvian and Lithuanian. Some related languages, such as Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian, also adopted Template:Angbr into the Cyrillic alphabet for the same purpose. Because of this standard, the lower case letter was chosen to be used in the IPA as the phonetic symbol for the sound.
Romance languages
In the Romance languages, Template:Angbr has generally developed from its original palatal approximant value in Latin to some kind of fricative. In French, Portuguese, Catalan (except Valencian), and Romanian it has been fronted to the postalveolar fricative Template:IPAslink (like Template:Angbr in English measure). In Valencian and Occitan it has the same sound as in English, Template:IPAslink. In Spanish, by contrast, it has been both devoiced and backed from an earlier Template:IPAslink to a present-day Template:IPAslink or Template:IPAslink,[10] with the actual phonetic realization depending on the speaker's dialect.
Generally, ⟨j⟩ is not commonly present in modern standard Italian spelling. Only proper nouns (such as Jesi and Letojanni), Latin words (Juventus), or those borrowed from foreign languages have Template:Angbr. The proper nouns and Latin words are pronounced as the palatal approximant Template:IPAslink, while words borrowed from foreign languages tend to follow that language's pronunciation of Template:Angbr. Until the 19th century, Template:Angbr was used instead of Template:Angbr in diphthongs, as a replacement for final -ii, and in vowel groups (as in Savoja); this rule was quite strict in official writing. Template:Angbr is also used to render Template:IPAslink in dialectal spelling, e.g. Romanesco dialect Template:Angbr [ajo] (garlic; cf. Italian aglio [aʎo]). The Italian novelist Luigi Pirandello used Template:Angbr in vowel groups in his works written in Italian; he also wrote in his native Sicilian language, which still uses the letter Template:Angbr to represent Template:IPAslink (and sometimes also [dʒ] or [gj], depending on its environment).[11]
Other European Languages
The Maltese language is a Semitic language, not a Romance language; but has been deeply influenced by them (especially Sicilian) and it uses Template:Angbr for the sound /j/ (cognate of the Semitic yod).
In Basque, the diaphoneme represented by Template:Angbr has a variety of realizations according to the regional dialect: [j, ʝ, ɟ, ʒ, ʃ, x] (the last one is typical of Gipuzkoa).
Non-European languages
Among non-European languages that have adopted the Latin script, Template:Angbr stands for Template:IPAslink in Turkish and Azerbaijani, for Template:IPAslink in Tatar. Template:Angbr stands for Template:IPAslink in Indonesian, Somali, Malay, Igbo, Shona, Oromo, Turkmen, and Zulu. It represents a voiced palatal plosive Template:IPAslink in Konkani, Yoruba, and Swahili. In Kiowa, Template:Angbr stands for a voiceless alveolar plosive, Template:IPAslink.
Template:Angbr stands for Template:IPAslink in the romanization systems of most of the languages of India such as Hindi and Telugu and stands for Template:IPAslink in the romanization of Japanese and Korean.
For Chinese languages, Template:Angbr stands for Template:IPAslink in Mandarin Chinese Pinyin system, the unaspirated equivalent of Template:Angbr (Template:IPAslink). In Wade–Giles, Template:Angbr stands for Mandarin Chinese Template:IPAslink. Pe̍h-ōe-jī of Hokkien and Tâi-lô for Taiwanese Hokkien, Template:Angbr stands for Template:IPAslink and Template:IPAslink, or Template:IPAslink and Template:IPAslink, depending on accents. In Jyutping for Cantonese, Template:Angbr stands for Template:IPAslink.
The Royal Thai General System of Transcription does not use the letter Template:Angbr, although it is used in some proper names and non-standard transcriptions to represent either จ [tɕ] or ช [tɕʰ] (the latter following Pali/Sanskrit root equivalents).
In romanized Pashto, Template:Angbr represents ځ, pronounced [dz].
In Greenlandic and in the Qaniujaaqpait spelling of the Inuktitut language, Template:Angbr is used to transcribe Template:IPAslink.
Following Spanish usage, Template:Angbr represents [x] or similar sounds in many Latin-alphabet-based writing systems for indigenous languages of the Americas, such as [χ] in Mayan languages (ALMG alphabet) and a glottal fricative [h] in some spelling systems used for Aymara.
Related characters
- 𐤉 : Semitic letter Yodh, from which the following symbols originally derive
- I i : Latin letter I, from which J derives
- ȷ : Dotless j
- ᶡ : Modifier letter small dotless j with stroke[12]
- ᶨ : Modifier letter small j with crossed-tail[12]
- IPA-specific symbols related to J: Template:IPA link Template:IPA link Template:IPA link Template:IPA link Template:Nounderlines[13]
- Uralic Phonetic Alphabet-specific symbols related to J:
- J with diacritics: Ĵ ĵ J̌ ǰ Ɉ ɉ J̃ j̇̃
Computing codes
- 1 Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Unicode also has a dotless variant, ȷ (U+0237). It is primarily used in Landsmålsalfabet and in mathematics. It is not intended to be used with diacritics since the normal j is softdotted in Unicode (that is, the dot is removed if a diacritic is to be placed above; Unicode further states that, for example i+ ¨ ≠ ı+¨ and the same holds true for j and ȷ).[16]
In Unicode, a duplicate of 'J' for use as a special phonetic character in historical Greek linguistics is encoded in the Greek script block as ϳ (Unicode U+03F3). It is used to denote the palatal glide /j/ in the context of Greek script. It is called "Yot" in the Unicode standard, after the German name of the letter J.[17][18] An uppercase version of this letter was added to the Unicode Standard at U+037F with the release of version 7.0 in June 2014.[19][20]
Wingdings smiley issue
In the Wingdings font by Microsoft, the letter "J" is rendered as a smiley face (this is distinct from the Unicode code point U+263A, which renders as ☺︎). In Microsoft applications, ":)" is automatically replaced by a smiley rendered in a specific font face when composing rich text documents or HTML email. This autocorrection feature can be switched off or changed to a Unicode smiley.[21] [22]
Other uses
- In international licence plate codes, J stands for Japan.
- In mathematics, j is one of the three imaginary units of quaternions.
- Also in mathematics, j is one of the three unit vectors.
- In the Metric system, J is the symbol for the joule, the SI derived unit for energy.
- In some areas of physics, electrical engineering and related fields, j is the symbol for the imaginary unit (the square root of −1) (in other fields the letter i is used, but this would be ambiguous as it is also the symbol for current).
- A J can be a slang term for a joint (marijuana cigarette)
- In the United Kingdom under the old system (before 2001), a licence plate that begins with "J" for example "J123 XYZ" would correspond to a vehicle registered between August 1, 1991 and July 31, 1992. Again under the old system, a licence plate that ends with "J" for example "ABC 123J" would correspond to a vehicle that was registered between August 1, 1970 and July 31, 1971.[23]
Other representations
References
- ↑ "J", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989)
- ↑ "J" and "jay", Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993)
- ↑ Template:OED
- ↑ "Wörterbuchnetz". http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB/woerterbuecher/lexer/selectarticle?lemid=LJ00001.
- ↑ De le lettere nuωvamente aggiunte ne la lingua Italiana in Italian Wikisource.
- ↑ Trask, R. L. (Robert Lawrence), 1944-2004. (1997). The history of Basque. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-13116-2. OCLC 34514667. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34514667.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Hogg, Richard M.; Norman Francis Blake; Roger Lass; Suzanne Romaine; R. W. Burchfield; John Algeo (1992). The Cambridge History of the English Language. Cambridge University Press. pp. 39. ISBN 0-521-26476-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=CCvMbntWth8C.
- ↑ English Grammar, Charles Butler, 1633
- ↑ Wells, John (1982). Accents of English 1: An Introduction. Cambridge, UN: Cambridge University Press. pp. 108. ISBN 0-521-29719-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ty5RoXyTKQsC.
- ↑ Penny, Ralph John (2002). A History of the Spanish Language. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-01184-1. https://archive.org/details/historyofspanish0000penn.
- ↑ Cipolla, Gaetano (2007). The Sounds of Sicilian: A Pronunciation Guide. Mineola, NY: Legas. pp. 11–12. ISBN 9781881901518. https://books.google.com/books?id=pZy-gVVN64kC&pg=PA11. Retrieved 2013-03-31.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Constable, Peter (2004-04-19). "L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04132-n2740-phonetic.pdf.
- ↑ Miller, Kirk; Ashby, Michael (2020-11-08). "L2/20-252R: Unicode request for IPA modifier-letters (a), pulmonic". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20252r-mod-ipa-a.pdf.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Everson, Michael (2002-03-20). "L2/02-141: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02141-n2419-uralic-phonetic.pdf.
- ↑ Ruppel, Klaas; Rueter, Jack; Kolehmainen, Erkki I. (2006-04-07). "L2/06-215: Proposal for Encoding 3 Additional Characters of the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06215-n3070.pdf.
- ↑ The Unicode Standard, Version 8.0, p. 293 (at the very bottom)
- ↑ Nick Nicholas, "Yot" Archived August 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Unicode Character 'GREEK LETTER YOT' (U+03F3)". https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/03f3/index.htm.
- ↑ "Unicode: Greek and Coptic". https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-7.0/U70-0370.pdf.
- ↑ "Unicode 7.0.0". Unicode Consortium. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode7.0.0/.
- ↑ Pirillo, Chris (26 June 2010). "J Smiley Outlook Email: Problem and Fix!". http://chris.pirillo.com/2010/06/25/j-smiley-outlook-email-problem-and-fix/.
- ↑ Chen, Raymond (23 May 2006). "That mysterious J". The Old New Thing. MSDN Blogs. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/05/23/604741.aspx.
- ↑ "Car Registration Years | Suffix Number Plates | Platehunter". https://www.platehunter.com/car-registration-years-.
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