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The letter I is the ninth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its English name is pronounced .
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! Egyptian hieroglyph
! Proto-Semitic Y
! Phoenician Y
! Etruscan I
! Greek Iota
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In Semitic, the letter Yôdh was probably originally a pictogram for an arm with hand, derived from a similar hieroglyph that had the value of in Egyptian, but was reassigned to /j/ (pronounced as English Y in "yoke") by Semites, because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used for the vowel sound /i/, mainly in foreign words.
The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician yodh as their letter iota (Ι, ι). It stood for the vo...
