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J, or j, is the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its usual name in English is jay (pronounced / ˈ dʒ eɪ / ⓘ ), with a now-uncommon variant jy / ˈ dʒ aɪ / .
J, the international license plate code for Japan; J, the Canadian postal code for the western and northern regions of Quebec; J, German mint mark for the city of Hamburg; J abbreviation for Jahwist, one of the hypothesized major authors of the Torah; J, an abbreviated title of a High Court judge (in Law Reports, etc.), e.g. Bloggs J; J.
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical technologies corporation headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
[ʝ̞] and [j] are two different segments, but they have to be labelled as voiced palatal approximant consonants. I think that the former is a real consonant, whereas the latter is a semi-consonant , as it has traditionally been called in Spanish, or a semi-vowel, if preferred.
The Cyrillic letter ј was introduced in the 1818 Serbian dictionary of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, on the basis of the Latin letter J. [1] Karadžić had previously used ї instead for the same sound, a usage he took from Dositej Obradović, [2] and the final choice also notably edged out another expected candidate, й, used in every other ...
Indonesia abandoned the spelling dj to conform to the j already in use in Malaysia, while the old Indonesian j for the semivowel was replaced with y as in Malaysia. Likewise, the velar fricative [ x ] which occurs in many Arabic loanwords, which used to be written 'ch' in Indonesian, became kh in both languages. [ 32 ]
A number of graphemes remain in use in Malaysian spelling, and in turn adopted by the Indonesians. For example, the Indonesians agreed to adopt Malaysian j for the voiced alveolopalatal affricate spelt j in English. Linked to the Indonesian acceptance of j was their acceptance of the Malaysian y for the semivowel.
James Joseph Fox (born 29 May 1940) is an American anthropologist and historian of Indonesia.. He was educated at Harvard University (AB 1962) and Oxford University in (Social Anthropology)(B Litt. 1965, DPhil. 1968) where he was a Rhodes Scholar. [1]