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H or h is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, including the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is aitch (pronounced / eɪ tʃ / , plural aitches ), or regionally haitch / h eɪ tʃ / , plural haitches.
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.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek eta Η, Etruscan, Latin H, and Cyrillic И. While H is a consonant in the Latin alphabet, the Greek and Cyrillic equivalents represent vowel sounds, though the letter was originally a consonant in Greek and this usage later evolved into the rough breathing character. [1]
When a musical key or key signature is referred to in a language other than English, that language may use the usual notation used in English (namely the letters A to G, along with translations of the words sharp, flat, major and minor in that language): languages which use the English system include Irish, Welsh, Hindi, Japanese (based on katakana in iroha order), Korean (based on hangul in ...
的士(dik1 si2, has no direct meaning, translated according to the English pronunciation.) vs 出租車(chū zū chē, meaning cars for renting.), translated from Taxi. 巴士(baa1 si2, has no direct meaning, translated according to the English pronunciation.) vs 公車(gōng chē, meaning public cars.), translated from Bus.
H h: Latin letter H, romanized as in Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Rusyn; Z z: Latin letter Z, alternative form of italicized Cyrillic Г (ge) Ґ ґ: Cyrillic letter ghe with upturn, the letter g, named ge in Ukrainian; Ѓ ѓ: Cyrillic letter Gje; Ғ ғ: Cyrillic letter Ghayn; R r: Latin letter R (lowercase) ₴: Ukrainian hryvnia (Currency sign)
The official chart of the IPA, revised in 2020. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech. [1]
Features of the "voiceless glottal fricative": In some languages, it has the constricted manner of articulation of a fricative.However, in many if not most it is a transitional state of the glottis or an approximant, with no manner of articulation other than its phonation type.