Wikipedia's first sentence called it “tenth letter of the phoenician and hebrew alphabets”. Today it says “tenth letter of the semitic abjads”.
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Yodh is the tenth letter of the Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets .1In Phoenician and Hebrew it represents a consonant (English "y", IPA [ j ] ) but the Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Iota and Latin I , representing a vowel sound in both cases. Yud also represents the number ten in gematria . Its script is a small suspended point, the little that holds much.2
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Yodh (also spelled Yud or Yod or Jodh ) is the tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets , including Phoenician , Aramaic , Hebrew Yud י , Syriac ܝ and Arabic Yāʾ ﻱ (in abjadi order , 28th in modern order).Its sound value is in all languages for which it is used; in many languages, it also serves as a long vowel , representing .The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Iota (Ι), Latin I , Cyrillic І , Coptic iauda (Ⲓ) and Gothic eis (𐌹).
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Yodh (also spelled Yud , Yod , Jod , or Jodh ) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads , including Phoenician Yōd , Hebrew Yōd י , Aramaic Yodh , Syriac Yōḏ ܚ, and Arabic Yāʾ ي (in abjadi order , 28th in modern order). Its sound value is / j / in all languages for which it is used; in many languages, it also serves as a long vowel , representing / iː / . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Iota (Ι), Latin I , J , Cyrillic І , Й , Coptic iauda (Ⲓ) and Gothic eis .
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Yodh (also spelled yud , yod , jod , or jodh ) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads , including Phoenician Yōd , Hebrew Yōd י , Aramaic Yodh , Syriac Yōḏ ܝ, Persian Ye ی , and Arabic Yāʾ ي . Its sound value is / j / in all languages for which it is used; in many languages, it also serves as a long vowel , representing / iː / . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Iota (Ι), Latin I , J , Cyrillic І , Coptic iauda (Ⲓ) and Gothic eis .
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Tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets "Yudh" redirects here.Yodh (also spelled jodh , yod , or jod ) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads , including Phoenician yōd 𐤉, Hebrew yud י, Aramaic yod 𐡉, Syriac yōḏ ܝ, and Arabic yāʾ ي. Its sound value is / j / in all languages for which it is used; in many languages, it also serves as a long vowel , representing / iː / . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Iota (Ι), Latin I and J , Cyrillic І , Coptic iauda (Ⲓ) and Gothic eis .The term yod is often used to refer to the speech sound [ j ] , a palatal approximant , even in discussions of languages not written in Semitic abjads, as in phonological phenomena such as English " yod-dropping ".
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Tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets Not to be confused with youth . Yodh (also spelled jodh , yod , or jod ) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads , including Phoenician yōd 𐤉, Hebrew yod י , Aramaic yod 𐡉, Syriac yōḏ ܝ, and Arabic yāʾ ي . It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪚, South Arabian 𐩺 , and Ge'ez የ . Its sound value is / j / in all languages for which it is used; in many languages, it also serves as a long vowel , representing / iː / . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Iota (Ι), Latin I and J , Cyrillic І , Coptic Iauda (Ⲓ) and Gothic eis . The term yod is often used to refer to the speech sound [ j ] , a palatal approximant , even in discussions of languages not written in Semitic abjads, as in phonological phenomena such as English " yod-dropping ".
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tenth letter of the phoenician and hebrew alphabets
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tenth letter of the semitic abjads
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