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In English, ⟨j⟩ most commonly represents the affricate /dʒ/. ʑ/ and / dʑ/ distinct in some dialects, see Yotsugana Most common pronunciation: / j/ Languages in italics do not use the Latin alphabet Pronunciation and use List of pronunciations

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'). 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. A distinctive usage emerged in Middle High German. 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.

History Children's book from 1743, showing I and J considered as the same letter When used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the voiced palatal approximant, it may be called yod or jod (pronounced / ˈ j ɒ d/ or / ˈ j oʊ d/).

Its usual name in English is jay (pronounced / ˈ dʒ eɪ/), with a now-uncommon variant jy / ˈ dʒ aɪ/. 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.

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