| Voiceless glottal fricative | |||
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| h͈ | |||
| IPA number | 146 | ||
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| Entity(decimal) | h | ||
| Unicode(hex) | U+0068 | ||
| X-SAMPA | h | ||
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| Voiceless glottal approximant | |
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Avoiceless glottal fricative, sometimes called avoiceless glottal transition or anaspirate,[1][2] is a type of sound used in somespokenlanguages that patterns like africative orapproximantconsonantphonologically, but often lacks the usualphonetic characteristics of a consonant. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨h⟩. However,[h] has been described as avoicelessphonation because in many languages, it lacks the place and manner of articulation of a prototypical consonant, as well as the height and backness of a prototypical vowel:
[h andɦ] have been described as voiceless or breathy voiced counterparts of the vowels that follow them [but] the shape of the vocal tract [...] is often simply that of the surrounding sounds. [...] Accordingly, in such cases it is more appropriate to regardh andɦ as segments that have only a laryngeal specification, and are unmarked for all other features. There are other languages [such as Hebrew and Arabic] which show a more definite displacement of the formant frequencies forh, suggesting it has a [glottal] constriction associated with its production.[3]
An effort undertaken at the Kiel Convention in 1989 attempted to move glottal fricatives, both voiceless and voiced, toapproximants.[4][5] The fricative may be represented with theraising diacritic ⟨h̝⟩, or the approximant with a lowering diacritic ⟨h̞⟩.
TheShanghainese language, among others, contrastsvoiced and voiceless glottal fricatives.[6]
Features of thevoiceless glottal fricative:
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adyghe | Shapsug | хыгь/khyg' | [həɡʲ] | 'now' | Corresponds to[x] in other dialects. |
| Afar | daháb | [dʌhʌb] | 'gold' | ||
| Albanian | hire | [ˈhiɾɛ][stress?] | 'the graces' | ||
| Aleut | hanix̂ | [ˈhaniχ] | 'lake' | ||
| Arabic | Modern Standard[7] | هائل/haa'il | [ˈhaːʔɪl] | 'enormous' | SeeArabic phonology |
| Assyrian | Eastern | ܗܝܡܢܘܬܐhèmanūta | [heːmaːnuːta] | 'faith' | |
| Western | ܗܪܟܗharcë | [hεrcɪ] | 'here' | ||
| Armenian | Eastern[8] | հայերեն/hayeren | [hɑjɛɾɛn]ⓘ | 'Armenian language' | |
| Asturian | South-central dialects | ḥuerza | [ˈhweɾθɐ] | 'force' | F- becomes [h] before -ue/-ui in south-central dialects. May be also realized as [ħ, ʕ, ɦ, x, χ] |
| Eastern dialects | ḥacer | [haˈθeɾ] | "to do" | F- becomes [h] in oriental dialects. May be also realized as [ħ, ʕ, ɦ, x, χ] | |
| All dialects | guaḥe ḥispiar | [ˈgwahɪ] [hisˈpjaɾ] | "kid" "to steal small quantities of something" | Some words use ḥ in all dialects. | |
| Avar | гьа | [ha] | 'oath' | ||
| Azeri | hin | [hɪn] | 'chicken coop' | ||
| Basque | North-Eastern dialects[9] | hirur | [hiɾur] | 'three' | Can be voiced[ɦ] instead. |
| Bengali | হাওয়া/haoua | [hao̯a] | 'wind' | ||
| Berber | aherkus | [ahərkus] | 'shoe' | ||
| Blackfoot[10] | [hʌ́nːja] [hʌnː] | 'really!' 'Finished' | Allophone of /x/ when it occurs beginning of a word. | ||
| Cantabrian | muḥer | [muˈheɾ] | 'woman' | F- becomes [h]. In most dialects, -LJ- and -C'L- too. May be also realized as[ħ,ʕ,ɦ,x,χ]. | |
| Catalan | ehem | [eˈhẽm] | 'ha!' | Found in loanwords and interjections. SeeCatalan phonology | |
| Chechen | хӏара /hara | [hɑrɐ] | 'this' | ||
| Chinese | Cantonese | 海 /hói | [hɔːi̯˧˥]ⓘ | 'sea' | SeeCantonese phonology |
| Taiwanese Mandarin | 海 /hǎi | [haɪ̯˨˩˦] | A velar fricative[x] forStandard Chinese. SeeStandard Chinese phonology | ||
| Danish[11] | hus | [ˈhuːˀs] | 'house' | Often voiced[ɦ] when between vowels.[11] SeeDanish phonology | |
| English | high | [haɪ̯] | 'high' | SeeEnglish phonology andH-dropping | |
| Esperanto | hejmo | [ˈhejmo] | 'home' | SeeEsperanto phonology | |
| Eastern Lombard | Val Camonica | Bresa | [ˈbrɛha] | 'Brescia' | Corresponds to /s/ in other varieties. |
| Estonian | hammas | [ˈhɑmˑɑs] | 'tooth' | SeeEstonian phonology | |
| Faroese | hon | [hoːn] | 'she' | ||
| Finnish | hammas | [ˈhɑmːɑs] | 'tooth' | SeeFinnish phonology | |
| French | Belgian | hotte | [hɔt] | 'pannier' | Found in the region ofLiège. SeeFrench phonology |
| Galician | Occidental, central, and some oriental dialects | gato | [ˈhätʊ] | 'cat' | Realization of [g] in some dialects. May be also realized as[ɦ,ʕ,x,χ,ʁ,ɡʰ]. Seegheada. |
| Georgian[12] | ჰავა/hava | [hɑvɑ] | 'climate' | ||
| German[13] | Hass | [has] | 'hatred' | SeeStandard German phonology | |
| Greek | Cypriot[14] | μαχαζί/mahazi | [mahaˈzi] | 'shop' | Allophone of/x/ before/a/. |
| Hawaiian[15] | haka | [ˈhɐkə] | 'shelf' | SeeHawaiian phonology | |
| Hebrew | הַר/har | [häʁ̞] | 'mountain' | SeeModern Hebrew phonology | |
| Hindi | Standard[7] | हम/ham | [ˈhəm] | 'we' | SeeHindustani phonology |
| Hmong | 𖬎𖬰𖬟 /hawm | [haɨ˨˩] | 'to honor' | ||
| Hungarian | helyes | [ˈhɛjɛʃ] | 'right' | SeeHungarian phonology | |
| Irish | shroich | [hɾˠɪç] | 'reached' | Appears as thelenited form of 'f', 's' and 't', as well as grammatical pre-aspiration of vowels, & occasionally word-initial as 'h' in borrowed words. SeeIrish phonology. | |
| Italian | Tuscan[16] | icapitani | [iˌhäɸiˈθäːni] | 'the captains' | Intervocalic allophone of/k/.[16] SeeItalian phonology |
| Japanese | 素肌 /suhada | [sɨᵝhada] | 'bare skin' | SeeJapanese phonology | |
| Javanese | ꦩꦲ/Maha | [mɔhɔ] | The expert, Almighty one | ||
| Kabardian | тхылъхэ/ tkhyl"khė | [tχɪɬhɑ] | 'books' | ||
| Kazakh | шаһар / şahar | [ʃahɑr] | 'city' | ||
| Khmer | ហឹរ /hœ̆r ចាស់ /chăs | [hər] [cah] | 'spicy' 'old' | SeeKhmer phonology | |
| Korean | 허리 /heori | [hʌɾi] | 'waist' | SeeKorean phonology | |
| Lakota | ho | [ho] | 'voice' | ||
| Lao | ຫ້າ/haa | [haː˧˩] | 'five' | ||
| Leonese | guaje | [ˈwahe̞] | 'boy' | ||
| Lezgian | гьек/hek | [hek] | 'glue' | ||
| Luxembourgish[17] | hei | [hɑ̝ɪ̯] | 'here' | SeeLuxembourgish phonology | |
| Malay | hari | [hari] | 'day' | ||
| Mutsun | hučekniš | [hut͡ʃɛkniʃ] | 'dog' | ||
| Navajo | hastiin | [hàsd̥ìːn] | 'mister' | ||
| Norwegian | hatt | [hɑtː] | 'hat' | SeeNorwegian phonology | |
| Pashto | هو/ho | [ho] | 'yes' | ||
| Persian | هفت/haft | [hæft] | 'seven' | SeePersian phonology | |
| Pirahã | hi | [hì] | 'he' | ||
| Portuguese | ManyBrazilian dialects[18] | marreta | [maˈhetɐ] | 'sledgehammer' | Allophone of/ʁ/.[h,ɦ] are marginal sounds to many speakers, particularly out of Brazil. SeePortuguese phonology. |
| Most dialects | Honda | [ˈhõ̞dɐ] | 'Honda' | ||
| Minas Gerais (mountain dialect) | arte | [ˈahtʃ] | 'art' | ||
| ColloquialBrazilian (some dialects)[19][20] | chuvisco | [ɕuˈvihku] | 'drizzle' | Corresponds to either/s/ or/ʃ/ (depending on dialect) in the syllable coda. Might also be deleted. | |
| Quechua | Standard | hatun | [hatuŋ] | 'big' | The elderly still maintain the pronunciation of/h/, but the young changed the pronunciation to/x/. |
| Romanian | hăț | [həts] | 'bridle' | SeeRomanian phonology | |
| Scottish Gaelic | ro-sheòl | [ɾɔˈhɔːɫ] | 'topsail'[21] | Lenited form of /t/, /s/, seeScottish Gaelic phonology | |
| Serbo-Croatian | Croatian[22] | hmelj | [hmê̞ʎ̟] | 'hops' | Allophone of/x/ when it is initial in a consonant cluster.[22] SeeSerbo-Croatian phonology |
| Spanish[23] | Andalusian,Canarian, andExtremaduran Spanish | higo | [ˈhiɣo̞] | 'fig' | Corresponds toOld Spanish /h/, which was developed from Latin /f/ but muted in other dialects. |
| Many dialects | obispo | [o̞ˈβ̞ihpo̞] | 'bishop' | Allophone of/s/ at the end of a syllable. SeeSpanish phonology | |
| Some dialects | jaca | [ˈhaka] | 'pony' | Corresponds to/x/ in other dialects. | |
| Swedish | hatt | [ˈhatː] | 'hat' | SeeSwedish phonology | |
| Sylheti | ꠢꠣꠝꠥꠇ/hamukh | [hamux] | 'snail' | ||
| Tagalog | tahimik | [tɐˈhimɪk] | 'quiet' | SeeTagalog phonology | |
| Tamil | Indian Tamil | பகை/pakai | [pɐhɛ(i̯)] | 'hate' | Intervocalic singular /k/ hasdebuccalized for most except in Brahmin and Sri Lankan Tamil. In total it can be [kʰ x ɡ ɣ ɣʰ h][24] |
| Tatar | һава/hawa | [hawa] | 'air' | SeeTatar phonology | |
| Telugu | పదిహేను/padihēnu | [pɐd̪iheːnu] | 'fifteen' | Rarely native, mostly in loanwords. SeeTelugu#Phonology | |
| Thai | ห้า/haa | [haː˥˩] | 'five' | ||
| Turkish | halı | [häˈɫɯ] | 'carpet' | SeeTurkish phonology | |
| Ubykh | дуаха | [dwaha] | 'prayer' | SeeUbykh phonology | |
| Ukrainian | кігті | [ˈkiht⁽ʲ⁾i] | 'claws' | Sometimes when[ɦ] is devoiced. SeeUkrainian phonology. | |
| Urdu | Standard[7] | ہم/ham | [ˈhəm] | 'we' | SeeHindi-Urdu phonology |
| Vietnamese[25] | hiểu | [hjew˧˩˧] | 'understand' | SeeVietnamese phonology | |
| Welsh | haul | [ˈhaɨl] | 'sun' | SeeWelsh orthography | |
| West Frisian | hoeke | [ˈhukə] | 'corner' | ||
| Yi | ꉐ /hxa | [ha˧] | 'hundred' | ||
| Nasalized voiceless glottal approximant | |
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| h̃ |
Anasalized voiceless glottal fricative orapproximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨h̃⟩.
The/h/ sound is nasalized in several languages, apparently due to a connection between glottal and nasal sounds calledrhinoglottophilia.[citation needed] Examples of languages where the only h-like sound is nasalized areKrim,Lisu, andPirahã.
More rarely, a language will contrast oral/h/ and nasal/h̃/. Two such languages are neighboring Bantu languages of Angola and Namibia,Kwangali andMbukushu. In these languages, vowels following/h̃/ are nasalized, though nasal vowels do not occur elsewhere. A distinction is also reported fromWolaytta, though in that case the nasal is rare.Swazi distinguishes/h,h̃,ɦ,ɦ̃/.
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basque | Souletin dialect[26] | ahate | [ãˈh̃ãte] | 'duck' | |
| Carapana[27] | hʉ̃gẽ́ | [h̃ĩŋɛ̃́] | 'god' | Allophone of[h] before nasal vowels. | |
| Kaingang[28] | hũg | [h̃ũŋ] | 'hawk' | Possible word-initial realization of/h/ before a nasal vowel.[28] | |
| Kwangali[29] | nhonho | [h̃õh̃õ] | Tribulus species | ||
| Khoekhoegowab | Damara dialect | hû | [h̃ũː] | 'six' | Free variation[clarification needed] |
| Lisu | Northern dialect[30] | han | [h̃a˧] | 'soul' | |
| Southern dialect[31] | ꓦꓻ | [h̃ɑ˦] | |||
| Swazi | [example needed] | Distinguishes/h,h̃,ɦ,ɦ̃/. | |||
| Tofa[32] | иъһён | [iʔh̃jon] | 'twenty' | ||
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