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== General information ==
 
== General information ==
   
'''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 [[wikipedia:Greek language|Greek]] linguistics which is encoded in the Greek script block as [[wikipedia:Unicode|Unicode]] U+037F and U+03F3. It is used to denote the [[wikipedia:palatal glide|palatal glide]] /''j''/ in the context of Greek script. It is called "Yot" in the Unicode standard, after the German name of the letter J j.<ref name="nn">Nick Nicholas, [http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/yot.html "Yot"]</ref><ref name="fileformat">[http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/03f3/index.htm Unicode code chart for Greek]</ref>
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'''Yot''' (Ϳϳ) existing inside the Greek script and encoded as &#x037F; (Unicode U+037F) and &#x03F3; (Unicode U+03F3) in the Greek script block of the Unicode standard as a duplicate of ''j'' for use as a special phonetic character in historical [[Greek language|Greek]] linguistics, serves as a graphical symbol representing the IPA /j/ palatal approximant phoneme inside the archaic Greek words. It is used to denote the [[palatal glide]] /j/ inside the [[Greek alphabet|Greek script]]. It was introduced by the linguists in the nineteenth century on the basis of the [[j]] letter from the [[Latin alphabet]]. It is called "Yot" in the Unicode standard, after the anglicized German name of the letter J.<ref>Nick Nicholas, [http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/yot.html "Yot"]</ref><ref>[http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/03f3/index.htm Unicode code chart for Greek]</ref> Similar introduction of [[ј]] into Cyrillic script occurred too in former Yugoslavia. This semiconsonantic 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 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.
   
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The Yot undergoes various outcomes in different circumstances:<ref>Giovanni La Magna e Angelo Nucciotti, ''Le parole dei Greci'', Milano, Carlo Signorelli Editore, 1995.</ref><ref>''Greco - Grammatica descrittiva'', di Campanini - Scaglietti, 3ª edizione 2011, pag. 283, ed. Sansoni per la scuola, ISBN 978-88-383-0975-5</ref>
{{wikipedia|J#Greek_letter_Yot}}
 
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*in the beginning of the word it falls leaving a spiritus asper or ζ:
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:* *ϳηπαρ> ἧπαρ (liver)
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:* *ϳυμη> ζύμη (yeast)
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*intervocalically it can:
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:* fall without a trace:
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::* *πολεϳες > *πολεες > πόλεις (cities)
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:*vocalize:
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::* *ἀληθεσϳα > *ἀληθεϳα > ἀλήθεια (true)
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:* drop initially to the lengthening of the preceding vowel:
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::* *διϳος > δῑος (divine)
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*when preceded by one or more consonants it disappears with different results:
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:κ, χ + ϳ > σσ(ττ)
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:γ + ϳ > σσ(ττ) or ζ
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:δ + ϳ > ζ
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:π, φ + ϳ > πτ
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:λ + ϳ > λλ
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:αν, εν + ϳ > αιν, ειν
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:ῐν, ῠν + ϳ > ῑν, ῡν
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:αρ, ερ + ϳ > αιρ, ειρ
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:ῐρ, ῠρ + ϳ > ῑρ, ῡρ
   
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==Unicode==
{{Unicode|http://unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html}}
 
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The Yot is encoded in [[Unicode]] as [http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/037f/index.htm U+037F] and [http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/03f3/index.htm U+03F3].
   
== References ==
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==Examples==
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*The verb in the first -μι class "ἵημι", from which we derive the present tense ἱε theme:
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This is because of some verbs in -μι theme of the first class that use the consonant in the verbal preposition of the same theme, which are adding the ι. In this case, the verbal theme is ϳε, but while obtaining ϳιϳε we see that the Yot falls leaving a spiritus asper on the ι, for example ιε theme for the present tense and ἵημι with the spiritus asper as the present active indicative of the first person singular provides lengthening of the vowel.
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{{it:wikipedia|Jod}}
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{{Unicode|http://unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html}}
   
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==References==
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