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ȷ

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ȷ U+0237, ȷ
LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J
ȶ
[U+0236]
Latin Extended-B ȸ
[U+0238]

Translingual

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Letter

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ȷ

  1. Obsolete form of j [until ca. 15th century]
    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 [th]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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

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  • 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

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ȷ

  1. Used by German-born Russian turkologist and ethnographer Vasily Radlov in his Cyrillic "Radloff alphabet" for Turkic languages.[1][2][3]

References

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  1. ^ Asmus Freytag (2003), Additional Mathematical and Letterlike Characters[1], L2/03-194
  2. ^ Marc Marti ((Can we date this quote?)), “Introduction to the Khakas Vocabulary”, in The Khakas Language[2], archived from the original on 2 February 2003
  3. ^ В. В. Радлов [V. V. Radlov, German: W. Radloff] (1893), ““Радловский” алфавит [“Radlovskij” alfavit]”, in Опыт словаря тюркских нарѣчій [Opyt slovarja tjurkskix narěčij, German: Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte]‎[3]

Further reading

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Karelian

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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ȷ (no case)

  1. (obsolete, Tver dialect) A letter of the 1930 Latin alphabet for Tver Karelian.