ଯ
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ଯ (jô)
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It is not pronounced /j/ as in most Brahmic scripts, but instead as /dʒ/ due to sound shift, just like its Bengali equivalent য. A very similar repurposing happened to the Latin letter J in many Western European languages. Its name is the same as the letter ଜ. A modified version of this letter, ୟ, is now used for /j/.