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J is the tenth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its normal name in English is ''jay'' or ''jy'' .〔"J", ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989)〕〔"J" and "jay", ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993)〕 When used for the palatal approximant, it may be called ''yod'' ( or ) or ''yot'' ( or ).
==History==
The letter 'J' originated as a 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.〔(Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch von Matthias Lexer (1878) )〕 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.〔''De le lettere nuωvamente aggiunte ne la lingua Italiana'' in Italian Wikisource.〕 Originally, 'I' and 'J' were different shapes for the same letter, both equally representing , , and ; but Romance languages developed new sounds (from former and ) that came to be represented as 'I' and 'J'; therefore, English J, acquired from the French J, has a sound value quite different from (which represents the initial sound in the English word "''y''et").
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