when did the letter j appear in the alphabet
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: 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: I text: () to represent , the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent and this use persists in the languages that descended from Latin. The modern letter 'j' originated as a variation of 'i', and both were used interchangeably for both the vowel and the consonant, coming to be differentiated only in the 16th century. The dot over the lowercase 'i' is sometimes called a "tittle". In the Turkish alphabet, dotted and dotless I are considered separate letters, representing a front and back vowel, respectively, and both have uppercase 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: 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