J

For the programming language, see J programming language.

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The letter J is the tenth of the Latin alphabet; it was the last to be added to that alphabet. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, represents the palatal approximant.

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J was originally a capital of I.

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Petrus Ramus (d. 1572) was the first to make a distinction between I and J. Originally, both I and J were pronounced (see IPA) as , , and ; but Romance languages developed new sounds (from former and ) that came to be represented as I and J; therefore, English J (from French J) has a sound quite different from I.

Latin alphabet: The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today....

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International Phonetic Alphabet: This article is about the alphabet officially used in linguistics. The NATO phonetic alphabet has also informally been called the 'International Phonetic Alphabet', though these two are unrelated....