Is the letters I in the Hebrew alphabet replaced by the letter y? Does the same rule apply to the letter J? You know because the name Joesph used to be Yoesph.
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The Hebrew alphabet doesn't not have a letter J. There are two different ways to make the sound of the letter I or Y in Hebrew, using the letter "yod" (sometimes pronounced as "yud") or using nikud, the points (vowels) under the letters (used mostly for children and learners.) Because hebrew does not have a letter J, they use the letter "gimmel" which is pronounced like the letter g in English and add a ' to denote that it's a modified letter for a letter that doesn't exist in Hebrew. The J does not have it's origins in Hebrew at all. The letter I and Y are simply interchangeable in Hebrew because there is only one such letter.
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