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H-dropping or aitch-dropping is the deletion of the voiceless glottal fricative or "H-sound", [h].The phenomenon is common in many dialects of English, and is also found in certain other languages, either as a purely historical development or as a contemporary difference between dialects.
In Irish, h is not considered an independent letter, except for a very few non-native words; however, h placed after a consonant is known as a "séimhiú" and indicates the lenition of that consonant; h began to replace the original form of a séimhiú, a dot placed above the consonant, after the introduction of typewriters.
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Letters turned 180 degrees for suggestive shapes, such as ɐ ɔ ə ɟ ɥ ɯ ɹ ʌ ʍ ʎ from a c e f h m r v w y . [note 8] Either the original letter may be reminiscent of the target sound, e.g., ɐ ə ɹ ʍ – or the turned one, e.g., ɔ ɟ ɥ ɯ ʌ ʎ .
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\.
Ħ (minuscule: ħ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from H with the addition of a bar. It is used in Maltese for a voiceless pharyngeal fricative consonant (corresponding to the letter heth of Semitic abjads: Arabic: ح, Hebrew: ח). Lowercase ħ is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the same sound.
H-bar or h-bar can refer to: H with stroke, a Latin letter H with a doubled horizontal stroke (Ħ ħ) Voiceless pharyngeal fricative, represented in IPA by ħ Reduced Planck constant, in which the above symbol represents as a mathematical symbol, ħ = h / 2π Antihydrogen, an antimatter element represented by the symbol H