Voiceless pharyngeal trill (voiceless epiglottal fricative) | |||
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ʜ | |||
IPA Number | 172 | ||
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Encoding | |||
Entity (decimal) | ʜ | ||
Unicode (hex) | U+029C | ||
X-SAMPA | H\ | ||
Braille | ![]() ![]() | ||
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The voiceless epiglottal or pharyngeal trill, or voiceless epiglottal fricative,[1] is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʜ⟩, a small capital version of the Latin letter h, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is H\
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The glyph is homoglyphic with the lowercase Cyrillic letter En (н).
Features of the voiceless epiglottal trill/fricative:
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Agul[2] | мехӏ | [mɛʜ] | 'whey' | ||
Amis[3] | tihi | [tiʜiʔ] | 'spouse' | The epiglottal consonants in Amis have proven hard to describe, with some describing it not as epiglottal, but a pharyngeal fricative or even as a uvular consonant. See Amis Phonology | |
Arabic[4] | Iraqi[5] | حَي | [ʜaj] | 'alive' | Corresponds to /ħ/ (ح) in Standard Arabic. See Arabic phonology |
Bengali | খড় | [ʜↄɾ] | 'straw' | Often debuccalized or phonetically realised as /x/. Corresponds to /kʰ/ in standard dialect. See Bengali phonology | |
Chechen | хьо | [ʜʷɔ] | 'you' | ||
Dahalo | [ʜaːɗo] | 'arrow' | |||
Haida | x̱ants | [ʜʌnt͡s] | 'shadow' | ||
Somali[6] | xoor | [ʜoːɾ] | 'bubble' | Realization of /ħ/ for some speakers.[6] See Somali phonology |