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i The letter I probably started as a picture sign of a hand, as in Egyptian hieroglyphic writing (1) and in a very early Semitic writing used about 1500 bce on the Sinai Peninsula (2). About 1000 bce, in Byblos and other Phoenician and Canaanite centres, the sign was given a linear form (3), the source of all later forms.In the Semitic languages the sign was called yod, meaning “hand.”
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