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'''J''' is the tenth [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]] in the [[English alphabet|modern English alphabet]] and the [[ISO basic Latin alphabet]]. Its normal [[English alphabet#Letter names|name in English]] is ''jay'' {{IPAc-en|'|dʒ|eɪ}} or, now uncommonly, ''jy'' {{IPAc-en|'|dʒ|aɪ}}.<ref name="j-oed">"J", ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989)</ref><ref>"J" and "jay", ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993)</ref> When used for the [[palatal approximant]], it may be called ''yod'' ({{IPAc-en|'|j|ɒ|d}} or {{IPAc-en|'|j|oʊ|d}}) or ''yot'' ({{IPAc-en|'|j|ɒ|t}} or {{IPAc-en|'|j|oʊ|t}}).

==History==
The letter 'J' originated as a [[swash (typography)|swash]] letter ''i'', used for the letter 'i' at the end of [[Roman numerals]] when following another 'i', as in 'xxiij' instead of 'xxiii' for the Roman numeral representing 23. A distinctive usage emerged in [[Middle High German]].<ref>[http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB/woerterbuecher/lexer/selectarticle?lemid=LJ00001 Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch von Matthias Lexer (1878)]</ref> [[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.<ref>''[[:s:it:De le lettere nuωvamente aggiunte ne la lingua Italiana|De le lettere nuωvamente aggiunte ne la lingua Italiana]]'' in Italian [[Wikisource]].</ref> Originally, 'I' and 'J' were different shapes for the same letter, both equally representing {{IPA|/i/}}, {{IPA|/iː/}}, and {{IPA|/j/}}; but [[Romance languages]] developed new sounds (from former {{IPA|/j/}} and {{IPA|/ɡ/}}) that came to be represented as 'I' and 'J'; therefore, [[English language|English]] J, acquired from the [[French language|French]] J, has a sound value quite different from {{IPA|/j/}} (which represents the initial sound in the English word "''y''et"). تمثيلات أخرى للحرف J ==

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==Use in writing systems==

===English===
In English, {{angbr|j}} most commonly represents the [[affricate]] {{IPAc-en|dʒ}}. In [[Old English]] the phoneme {{IPA|/dʒ/}} was represented orthographically with {{angbr|cg}} and {{angbr|cȝ}}.<ref name="hogg">
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