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Latin letter J with circumflex; used in Esperanto / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ĵ or ĵ (J circumflex) is a letter in Esperanto orthography representing the sound [ʒ].[1]
This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (February 2021) |
J with circumflex | |
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Ĵ ĵ Jh jh Jx jx | |
Usage | |
Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabet |
Language of origin | Esperanto language |
Phonetic usage | [ʒ] |
Unicode codepoint | U+0134 U+0135 |
Alphabetical position | 14 |
History | |
Development | |
Time period | 1887 to present |
Other | |
Writing direction | Left-to-right |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
While Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for its four postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavic alphabets, the base letters are Romano-Germanic. Ĵ is based on the French pronunciation of the letter j to better preserve the shape of borrowings from that language (such as ĵurnalo from journal) than Slavic ž would.
Ĵ is the fourteenth letter in Esperanto orthography. Although it is written as jx and jh respectively in the x-system and h-system workarounds, it is normally written as J with a circumflex: ĵ.
Ĵ is used in the Persian Latin (Rumi) alphabet, equivalent to ژ.[citation needed]