ȷ
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Translingual
Letter
ȷ
- Obsolete form of j.
- Coordinate term: ı
- a. 1500, Richard Leighton Greene, editor, The Early English Carols, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, published 1935, page 272:
- Yt ıs sene dayly both ın borows and townys / Wheras the copuls han mad obȷurgacyon, / The gowd wyff ful humanly to hyr spowse gaue gownys, / Wych yng ıs orygınal of so gret presumpcyon / That often tymys the good man ıs fal ın a consumpcyon, / Wherfor, as I seyd, suffer not to mych / Lest the most mayster weryth no brych.
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Usage notes
- Medieval dotless j would not normally be typeset with this character, but with normal U+006A and left to an appropriate font to render dotless.
Symbol
ȷ
References
Further reading
Karelian
Pronunciation
Indicated palatalization of the preceding consonant letter.
Letter
ȷ
- (obsolete, Tver dialect) A letter of the 1930 Latin alphabet for Tver Karelian.