THE YORUBA ALPHABET IS ANCIENT HEBREW: “saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?.” 🕎Numbers 15;37-41 “Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments”
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “J ” - it is a latecomer to the alphabet and originally had no sound value. The letter itself began as a scribal modification of Roman -i- in continental Medieval Latin.