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JThe letter J is the tenth of the Latin alphabet; it was the last to be added to that alphabet. History J was originally a capital of I. Some people in the German-speaking world still follow the convention of writing (for example) "Isabel" as "Jsabel" and Jnes as "Ines"; one also sometimes encounters J as a capital of I in Italy. 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 j and g) that came to be represented as I and J; therefore, English J (from French J) has a sound quite different from I. In other Germanic languages J stands for . This is also true of Slavic languages that use the Latin alphabet as well as in Hungarian, Albanian, and Finnish, where it can never be a fricative. In modern standard Italian only foreign or Latin words have J. Until the 19th century, J was used instead of I in diphthongs, as a replacement for final -ii, or in vowels groups (as in Savoja); this rule was quite strict for official writing. J is also used for rendering words in dialect, where it stands for , e.g. Romanesque ajo for standard aglio (garlic). In Spanish J stands for (which in some cases developed from the sound, i.e. the same sound that English still has). In French former is now pronounced as (as in English measure). In Turkish, Azeri and Tatar J is always prounced . Hebrew also influenced the English J, which in a few cases is used for in place of the more normal Y. The classic example is Hallelujah which is pronounced the same as Halleluyah. See the Hebrew yod for more details. Alternate representations Juliet represents the letter J in the NATO phonetic alphabet. In international Morse code the letter J is DitDahDahDah: - - - In Braille the letter J is represented as ⠚ (in Unicode), the dot pattern, .X XX .. Meanings for J J can also refer to: Regional meanings Computing In Unicode the capital J is codepoint U+004A and the lowercase j is U+006A. The ASCII code for capital J is 74 and for lowercase j is 106; or in binary 01001010 and 01101010, correspondingly. The EBCDIC code for capital J is 209 and for lowercase j is 145. The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "J" and "j" for upper and lower case respectively. A capital J can refer to the J programming language. See also
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