Yeshu, Yehoshua, or Yeshua

[Paul Younan]

I am still struggling with this. It's a frustrating letter! How much does not pronouncing ayn effected the sounds of words?

Quite a bit. It's one of those things that makes Modern Hebrew stand out as a resurrected language, as opposed to one that's been continually spoken throughout the ages.

Unfortunately these little things are lost and the language doesn't sound the same today as it did two thousand years ago.

+Shamasha