There is no SOUND 'J' in Hebrew. That many Hebrew names end up in English written with 'J' is kind of ironic. It is an artifact of history, since English is a Germanic language, and the Bible was translated into 'the vernacular' (that is, into German) quite early.
The alphabet chart has no letter "J". The Hebrew "yod" became "I" in Greek and in Latin where the "I" represented both vowel and consonant sounds.
How to write j sound in Hebrew?
‹J› does not exist in Hebrew. It doesn't exist either in Greek or Latin. The palatal approximant sound /j/ (in English ‹y› as in yes) exists in many languages, including Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin. The Hebrews used letter yod (‹י›) to represent that sound.
Kako napisati glas j na hebrejskom?
‹J› ne postoji u hebrejskom. Ne postoji ni u grčkom ni u
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