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Graphemes for /h/ and Related Phonemes

/h/ - voiceless glottal fricative

Writing SystemGraphemeExampleNotes
apd-Latn <h> hiduum ‘clothes’
ar-Arab <ه> طائرتهم ‘their aeroplane’, صورته ‘his picture’
ast-Latn <> ḥacer ‘to do’Eastern Asturian only
bcy-Latn <h> haɓye ‘water’
bec-Latn <h> hee ‘begin’, ɛhambɛl ‘centipede’Mostly used in Ici dialect.
blt-Tavt <> ꪬꪱ ‘to seek’low tone series (syll. init.)
blt-Tavt <> ꪭꪴ꫁ ‘to know’high tone series (syll. init.)
de-Latn <h> Hand ‘hand’
dv-Thaa <ހ> ހާދަ
en-Latn <h> hat
en-Latn <wh> who
fub-Arab <ح> حَاجُغٛ ‘to envy’, يَحُغٛ ‘to go’, يَحْ! ‘go!’, مِسَاحِ ‘I gave (freely)’
fub-Arab <ه> هَرُونَ ‘Aaron’, إِبْرَاهِيمِ ‘Abraham’, اللَّه ‘Allah’only used for important names found in the Qurʼan
fub-Latn <h> haajugo ‘to envy’, yahugo ‘to go’, yah! ‘go!’, mi saahi ‘I gave (freely)’
ha-Latn <h> haske ‘light’
id-Latn <h> huruf ‘letter’
ii-Latn <hx> hxie ‘heart’
lbw-Latn <h> haka ‘root’, ahu ‘smoke’
nat-Latn <h> hababa ‘leaf’, ihurugu ‘dove’
png-Latn <h> haga, hikihiki
srr-Arab <ه> هِيدْ ‘year’
srr-Latn <h> hiid ‘year’
wo-Arab <ح> اَحَکَيْ ‘Oh, yea!’
wo-Latn <h> ahakaay ‘Oh, yea!’
xnz-Copt <ϩ>
xnz-Latn <h>
yba-Latn <h> ihi

/hʷ/ - labialized voiceless glottal fricative

Writing SystemGraphemeExampleNotes
nat-Latn <hw> uhwa̱ ‘yesterday’, hwogi ‘steam’
png-Latn <hw> hwaa, hwe̱n

/hʲ/ - palatalized voiceless glottal fricative

Writing SystemGraphemeExampleNotes
nat-Latn <hy> bihyan ‘termite’, ma̱hya̱n ‘blood’
png-Latn <hy> hyoo, hyuhyu

Sequences including /h/ - voiceless glottal fricative

Writing SystemPhoneme SequenceGraphemeExampleNotes
ii-Yiii/he/ <> ‘eight’
ii-Yiii/he/ <> ꀋꅔꉇ ‘yesterday’
ii-Yiii/he/ <> ꉈꏭ ‘outside’
ii-Yiii/he/ <> ꉉꈿ ‘chat’
ii-Yiii/he̙/ <> ꀋꉊꃀ ‘formerly’
ii-Yiii/he̙/ <> ꉋꄅ ‘exterior’
ii-Yiii/he̙/ <> ꉌꂵ ‘heart’
ii-Yiii/he̙/ <> ꉍꈄ ‘bag plaited from hemp stalks’
ii-Yiii/hä̙/ <> ꉎꏯ ‘higher up’
ii-Yiii/hä̙/ <> ꉏꎸꃅ ‘yawn’
ii-Yiii/hä̙/ <> ꂷꉐ ‘rain’
ii-Yiii/hä̙/ <> ꉑꀮ ‘bird sp.’
ii-Yiii/ho̙/ <> ꃅꉒ ‘fog’
ii-Yiii/ho̙/ <>
ii-Yiii/ho̙/ <> ꌳꉔ ‘capable’
ii-Yiii/ho̙/ <> ꉕꃴ ‘bottom half of a mountain’
ii-Yiii/ho/ <> ꁬꋌꉖ ‘apply medicine’
ii-Yiii/ho/ <> ꀋꃋꉗꋒ ‘twin daughters’
ii-Yiii/ho/ <> ꉘꁌ ‘mountain top’
ii-Yiii/ho/ <> ꉙꏂ ‘willow’
ii-Yiii/hɤ/ <> ꇁꉚ ‘wait’
ii-Yiii/hɤ/ <> ꉛꐱ ‘fish net’
ii-Yiii/hɤ/ <> ‘look at’

/ʜ/ - voiceless epiglottal fricative

None

/ħ/ - voiceless pharyngeal fricative

Writing SystemGraphemeExampleNotes
apd-Latn <H> Humaar ‘donkey’Persson orthography
apd-Latn <> ḥumaar ‘donkey’Hillelson orthography
ar-Arab <ح> احتجاج ‘protest’
dv-Thaa <އ◌ް> ސިއްޙަތުOnly in words of foreign origin. Occurs before ‹ޙ› to indicate a geminate.
dv-Thaa <ޙ> ޙާލުA letter devised to transliterate Arabic ‹ح›. Occurs only in words of foreign origin and is often pronounced simply as /h/.