Dotless J

{{short description|Letter of the Latin alphabet}} thumb|Uppercase {{angbr|J}} on the left; dotless lowercase {{angbr|ȷ}} on the right.|class=skin-invert-image

'''ȷ''' is a modified letter of the Latin alphabet, obtained by writing the lowercase letter j without a dot.

Dotless j was formerly used in Karelian to mark palatalisation.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.reocities.com/Athens/4280/tver.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308192739/http://www.reocities.com/Athens/4280/tver.htm | archive-date=2016-03-08 | title=Neuvostoliiton kansallisuus- ja kielipolitiikka Tverin Karjalassa 1930-luvulla }}</ref> It is also found in the Swedish Dialect Alphabet, in an Adyghe orthography from 1922, a transcription of Khakas by Vasily Radlov<ref>{{Cite web| title=Additional Mathematical and Letterlike Characters | url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03194-math-letterlike.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819214257/http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03194-math-letterlike.pdf | archive-date=2013-08-19}}</ref> and in the Basque orthography of Sabino Arana.

==Encoding== {{charmap | 0237 | name1 = Latin Small Letter Dotless J }}

==See also== * Dotless I * J * ɟ (dotless j with stroke, an IPA letter representing the voiced palatal stop)

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