Category:Yot servers

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General information
Jod, Jot, Yod or Yot, uppercase Ϳ, lowercase ϳ; in Unicode, an analogue of it's Latin and Cyrillic counterparts for use as a special phonetic character in historical  linguistics, which is encoded in the Greek script block as  U+037F and as U+03F3. It is used to denote the /j/ in the context of Greek script. It is called "Yot" in the Unicode standard, after the German name of the letter J j.

More general information

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In Unicode, a duplicate of J j for use as a special phonetic character in historical linguistics is encoded in the Greek script block as  U+037F and as U+03F3. It is used to denote the /j/ in the context of Greek script. It is called "Yot" in the Unicode standard, after the German name of the letter J j.

Yot (Ϳ ϳ), existing inside the and encoded as &#x037F; (Unicode U+037F) and as &#x03F3; (Unicode U+03F3) in the Greek script block of the Unicode standard as a duplicate of J j for use as a special phonetic character in historical  linguistics, serves as a graphical symbol representing the IPA /j/ palatal approximate phoneme inside the archaic Greek words. It is used to denote the palatal glide /j/ inside the Greek script. It was introduced by the linguists in the nineteenth century on the basis of the  letter from the. It is called "Yot" in the Unicode standard, after the anglicized German name of the letter J j. Similar introduction of J j into occurred too in former Yugoslavia. This semi-consonantal sound is corresponding to "i" followed by a vowel (e.g.:"yesterday"). The loss of this phoneme (but not of course the phone) in the ancient Greek occurred already in ancient times. The Ϳ ϳ grapheme is used mostly in historical grammar of ancient Greek, to explain some linguistic phenomena and for reconstructing of several major phonetic and morphological processes.

Unicode
The Yot is encoded in as U+037F for the capital letter and as U+03F3 for the non-capital letter.

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