In the roman alphabet apparently there is no letter j. If this is the case why was there a julius caesar?

Answer 1

It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy, making the early Latin alphabet one among several Old Italic alphabets emerging at the time.

Roman legend credited the introduction to one Evander, son of the Sibyl, supposedly 60 years before the Trojan war, but there is no historically sound basis to this tale. From the Cumae alphabet, the Etruscan alphabet was derived and the Latins finally adopted 21 of the original 26 Etruscan letters.

The original Latin alphabet was:

A B C D E F Z H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X

C stood for /g/
I stood for both /i/ and /j/.
V stood for both /u/ and /w/.

IULIUS CAESAR

click here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Latin_alphabet

Answer 2

It would have been an I. Iulius.

Things are often spelled differently in English. The Greeks have no "C," and "PH" in Greek does not make a "f" sound, so why do we spell it Sophacles? That's just another example of things being spelled diffrently from the original.

In Latin mass, "Jesus" is Iesu. So again, the J is an I.

Answer 3

No roman would ever think of Iulius as Julius.
They didnt' watch tv 2000 years ago, so the americanization of names was not yet trendy.

Answer 4

Because his name in classic latin was Gaius Iulius Caesar. The J was added into the alphabet as romance languages developed, as they resulted from mixing vulgar latin with the german dialects (French= Frankish + Latin, Spanish= Gothic + Latin, etc....)

Answer 5

The romans actually wrote iulius caesar.

Answer 6

It was only because of Julius Caesar that the letter "J" had to be removed from the Roman alphabet. He took it to add to his name ulius caesar.

Answer 7

Tv set is produced to the lowest common denominator - i.e., the average IQ of the general public, whereas a reserve is written to the best common denominator

Answer 8

I love watching TV, The animal is enjoyed by me shows, the medical shows and the court and Judges shows

Answer 9

In the Latin (Roman) alphabet of that day, the letter "I" stood for both "I" and "J". See web site below.

Answer 10

jupiter ,one of the main roman gods was known as iopiter optimum!!did you ever hear a nipponese person try to pronounce an "r"???having a name like gregory sharp is a funny thing in nihongo i assure you!!meshico!!xavier and javier!!same connnundrum!!languages differ in even more remarkable fashion in that a lot of times no comparable translation is adequate to the task at all!!translaters many times have their own agendas!!!malinche for instance was bejewled and handsomely rewarded for telling cortez what she knew what he wanted to hear!!the translator of attahuallpa the inca capac to pizzaro had raped attahualla's wife and gave false testimony as to the emperor's intentions in launching waves of attacks against his captors from his prison cell by edict on quipu message cords!!when pizzaro strangled ther emperor and burn his body almost all of the emperor's wives immediately killed themselves!!thus thwarting the translators libidinous intentions!!the problem with this is that tons and tons of golden and silver treasures were on the magnificent inca road system coming to ransom the emperor!!a inca general before he was tortured and executed said that pizzaro and the greedy spaniards had only received a single kernal of the entire ear of corn that was the emperor's promised ransom..fillin a certain room to a reaching height with gold and silver if he would be set free!a golden chain 847 feet long with links so large that a man could put a hand through the joined links..that was just part a the treasure that disappeared with the emperor's demise..al thanks to a mistranslation of spoken words and intent!!!and an empire of gold was lost!!don't sweat the small stuff ..i took four years of latinand it is very interesting as written and there are no good translations of any of it with grace and fuidity that the subject matter deserves!!the golden tresures from the sack of rome by alaric and the visigoths buried on the dead king and his standing horse,covered with gilded goblet,chandeeliers,chests of jewels and then a river was turned over the burial and all of the slaves who turned the river's course were killed!!it's in italy in a city in calabria called cosenza on the busento river and has never been found!!!is anyone looking???