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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 March 2025. 10th letter of the Latin alphabet This article is about the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet. For other uses, see J (disambiguation). For technical reasons, "J#" redirects here. For the programming language, see J Sharp. For the Cyrillic letter Ј, see Je (Cyrillic). J J j Usage Writing ...
The letter J was first distinguished from 'I' by the Frenchman Pierre Ramus in the 16th century, but did not become common in Modern English until the 17th century, so that early 17th century works such as the first edition of the King James Version of the Bible (1611) continued to print the name with an I. [18]
The Spanish language is written using the Spanish alphabet, which is the ISO Latin script with one additional letter, eñe ñ , for a total of 27 letters. [1] Although the letters k and w are part of the alphabet, they appear only in loanwords such as karate, kilo, waterpolo and wolframio (tungsten or wolfram) and in sensational spellings: okupa, bakalao.
It was not until the Middle Ages that the letter W (originally a ligature of two V s) was added to the Latin alphabet, to represent sounds from the Germanic languages which did not exist in medieval Latin, and only after the Renaissance did the convention of treating I and U as vowels, and J and V as consonants, become established.
In Castilian Spanish, the initial J is similar to the German ch in the name Bach and Scottish Gaelic and Irish ch in loch, though Spanish j varies by dialect. Historically, the modern pronunciation of the name José in Spanish is the result of the phonological history of Spanish coronal fricatives since the fifteenth century, when it departed ...
In the late 19th century, the still-Spanish colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico encouraged more immigrants from Spain, and similarly other Spanish-speaking countries such as Argentina, Uruguay, and to a lesser extent Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela, attracted waves of European immigration, Spanish and non-Spanish, in the late 19th ...
In the 16th century, as the Spanish colonization of the Americas was beginning, the phoneme now represented by the letter j had begun to change its place of articulation from palato-alveolar [ʃ] to palatal [ç] and to velar [x], like German ch in Bach (see History of Spanish and Old Spanish language).
Iota (Ι, ι), the name of the 9th letter in the Greek alphabet; (figuratively) Something very small, based on the fact that the letter Iota (lat. i) is the smallest character in the alphabet; The name of the letter J in Spanish and Portuguese; Jota (music), a type of Spanish music and dance; Jota (food), an Istrian bean-sauerkraut stew;