yodh

Yodh
Arabic	Syriac	Hebrew	Aramaic	Phoenician
ﻳ,ﻱ	ܝ	י
Phonemic representation (IPA):				j, i, e
Position in alphabet:				10
Gematria/Abjad value:				10

Yodh (also spelled Yud or Yod) is the tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew י, Syriac ܝ and Arabic yāʼ ﻱ (in abjadi order, 28th in modern order). Its sound value is IPA: [j] in all languages for which it is used; in many languages, it also serves as a long vowel, representing IPA: [iː].

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Iota (Ι), Latin I, Cyrillic (Ukrainian and Belarusian) І, Coptic iauda (Ⲓ) and Gothic eis (

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