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{{About|the letter J
of the alphabet}}
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{{Technical reasons|J#|the programming language|J Sharp}}
{{Latin letter info|j}}
[[File:J cursiva.gif|thumb|Writing cursive forms of J]]
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In English, {{angbr|j}} is the fourth-least-frequently used letter in words, being more frequent only than {{angbr|[[z]]}}, {{angbr|[[q]]}}, and {{angbr|[[x]]}}. It is however quite common in proper nouns, especially personal names.

===Other languages===
[[File:Pronunciation of J in Europ
ae.png|thumb|Pronunciation of written <j> in European languages]]
The great majority of [[Germanic languages]], such as [[German language|German]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]], [[Swedish language|Swedish]], [[Danish language|Danish]] and [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]]; use {{angbr|j}} for the [[palatal approximant]] {{IPAslink|j}}, which is usually represented by the letter {{angbr|y}} in English. Notable exceptions are [[English language|English]], [[Scots language|Scot(contracted; show full){{Wikisource1911Enc}}
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{{Latin alphabet|J|}}

[[Category:ISO basic Latin letters]]