Ho (majuscule: Հ; minuscule: հ;
Armenian
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* Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent
** Armenian diaspora, Armenian communities around the ...
: հո) is the sixteenth letter of the
Armenian alphabet
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, representing the
voiceless glottal fricative
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(). It is typically
romanized
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with the letter
H.
It was part of the alphabet created by
Mesrop Mashtots
Mesrop Mashtots (; , ' 362February 17, 440 AD) was an Armenians, Armenian Linguistics, linguist, composer, Christian theology, theologian, Politician, statesman, and Hymnology, hymnologist. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic C ...
in the
5th century CE
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. In the
Armenian numeral system, it has a value of 70.
Character codes
See also
*
Armenian alphabet
The Armenian alphabet (, or , ) or, more broadly, the Armenian script, is an alphabetic writing system developed for Armenian and occasionally used to write other languages. It is one of the three historical alphabets of the South Caucasu ...
*
Mesrop Mashtots
Mesrop Mashtots (; , ' 362February 17, 440 AD) was an Armenians, Armenian Linguistics, linguist, composer, Christian theology, theologian, Politician, statesman, and Hymnology, hymnologist. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic C ...
References
External links
*
Հ on Wiktionary
*
հ on Wiktionary
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Armenian letters
Armenian alphabet
Armenian language