when was the letter j introduced to the alphabet
in Middle High German 1524
title: J text: J J is the tenth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its normal name in English is "jay" or, now uncommonly, "jy" . When used for the palatal approximant, it may be called "yod" ( or ) or "yot" ( or ). The letter "J" originated as a swash letter "I", used for the letter "I" at the end of Roman numerals when following another "I", as in "XXIIJ" or "xxiij" instead of "XXIII" or "xxiii" for the Roman numeral representing 23. A distinctive usage emerged in Middle High German. Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478–1550) title: Latin script text: while a new, pointed minuscule "v" was derived from V for the consonant. In the case of I, a word-final swash form, "j", came to be used for the consonant, with the un-swashed form restricted to vowel use. Such conventions were erratic for centuries. J was introduced into English for the consonant in the 17th century (it had been rare as a vowel), but it was not universally considered a distinct letter in the alphabetic order until the 19th century. By the 1960s, it became apparent to the computer and telecommunications industries in the First World that a non-proprietary method title: J text: a smiley rendered in a specific font face when composing rich text documents or HTML email. This autocorrection feature can be switched off or changed to a Unicode smiley. J J is the tenth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its normal name in English is "jay" or, now uncommonly, "jy" . When used for the palatal approximant, it may be called "yod" ( or ) or "yot" ( or ). The letter "J" originated as a swash letter "I", used for the letter "I" at the end of Roman numerals when following another title: J text: word ""y"et"). In English, most commonly represents the affricate . In Old English, the phoneme was represented orthographically with and . Under the influence of Old French, which had a similar phoneme deriving from Latin , English scribes began to use (later ) to represent word-initial in Old English (for example, iest" and, later jest"), while using elsewhere (for example, "hedge"). Later, many other uses of (later ) were added in loanwords from French and other languages (e.g. "adjoin", "junta"). The first English language book to make a clear distinction between and was published in 1633. In loan words such title: J text: was the first to explicitly distinguish I and J as representing separate sounds, in his "Ɛpistola del Trissino de le lettere nuωvamente aggiunte ne la lingua italiana" ("Trissino's epistle about the letters recently added in the Italian language") of 1524. Originally, 'I' and 'J' were different shapes for the same letter, both equally representing , , and ; but, Romance languages developed new sounds (from former and ) that came to be represented as 'I' and 'J'; therefore, English J, acquired from the French J, has a sound value quite different from (which represents the initial sound in the English