Dotless J

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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.{{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 }} It is also found in the Swedish Dialect Alphabet, in an Adyghe orthography from 1922, a transcription of Khakas by Vasily Radlovhttps://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03194-math-letterlike.pdf and in the Basque orthography of Sabino Arana.