H

H is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet.

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In the International Phonetic Alphabet, this symbol is used to represent two sounds. Its lowercase form, , represents the voiceless glottal fricative, and its small capital form, , represents the voiceless epiglottal fricative.

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The Semitic letter ח (kh?t) probably represented the voiceless pharyngeal fricative (IPA ). The form of the letter probably stood for a fence. The early Greek H stood for , but later on this letter eta (Η, η) stood for . In Modern Greek this phoneme fell together with , similar to the English development where EA and EE came to be both pronounced .

International Phonetic Alphabet: This article is about the alphabet officially used in linguistics. The NATO phonetic alphabet has also informally been called the 'International Phonetic Alphabet', though these two are unrelated....

Voiceless glottal fricative: The voiceless glottal "fricative" is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is h....

Voiceless epiglottal fricative: The voiceless epiglottal fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is H....