From a modification of the Latin letter I ( “ i ” ) , from the Etruscan letter 𐌉 ( i , “ i ” ) , from the Ancient Greek letter Ι ( I , “ iota ” ) , derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤉 ( y , “ yod ” ) , from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓂝 .
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Initialism of jer ( “ penis ” ) .
From the letter J of the English pattern playing cards. Various names exist for this symbol in the spoken language.
The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German , and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information , and J for information on the development of the glyph itself.
Borrowed from Tagalog J . Letter pronunciation is influenced by English J .
The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and J for development of the glyph itself.
The Khiamniungan Naga language is presently written using the Latin alphabet . No indigenous or alternative script has been documented from earlier periods in the language's history. For a detailed description of the writing system's conventions including vowel and Consonant representation, tone marking (such as the use of h for glottal, the letter ü is pronounced ə ), and orthographic rules, see the Wikipedia article on the Khiamniungan alphabet.
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs , which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur , and sporadically in Cyrillic .
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