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Ḥ
Ḥ (Lower case, minuscule: ḥ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from H with the addition of a dot (diacritic), dot diacritic. Usage Ḥ is used to represent the voiceless pharyngeal fricative () in Heth#Arabic_.E1.B8.A5.C4.81.CA.BE, Arabic, some Syriac language, Syriac languages (such as Turoyo and Sureth), Egyptian language, Ancient Egyptian, and traditional Hebrew (whereas Modern Israeli Hebrew, Hebrew-speaking Israelis and Ashkenazi Hebrew, Ashkenazi Jews (though not strictly) have usually replaced the pronunciation of Ḥ in the respective eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, Ḥet with a voiceless uvular fricative ()). This sound also exists in the Tigrinya language, Tigrinya and Somali languages, in Modern South Arabian languages and in smaller North East African languages. Asturian Ḥ is used in Asturian language, Asturian to represent a voiceless glottal fricative (/h/) sound in Asturian words such as ḥou and ḥue, as well as some place names in the eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ḥet
Heth, sometimes written Chet or Ḥet, is the eighth Letter (alphabet), letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician alphabet, Phoenician ''ḥēt'' 𐤇, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew ''ḥēt'' , Aramaic alphabet, Aramaic ''ḥēṯ'' 𐡇, Syriac alphabet, Syriac ''ḥēṯ'' ܚ, and Arabic alphabet, Arabic ''ḥāʾ'' . It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪂, Ancient South Arabian script, South Arabian , and Geʽez script, Ge'ez . Heth originally represented a voiceless fricative, either voiceless pharyngeal fricative, pharyngeal , or voiceless velar fricative, velar . In Arabic, two corresponding letters were created for both phonemic sounds: unmodified ' represents , while ' represents . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek alphabet, Greek eta , Etruscan alphabet, Etruscan , Latin alphabet, Latin H, and Cyrillic script, Cyrillic I (Cyrillic), И. While H is a consonant in the Latin alphabet, the Greek and Cyrillic equivalents represent v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
