Voiceless glottal fricative

The voiceless glottal fricative is a type of consonant. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨h⟩. The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by the "h" in hear and have.

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Examples
Language  Word  IPA Meaning Adyghe  Shapsug  /khyg'   'now' Albanian      'the graces'  Arabic  Modern Standard  /haa'il   'enormous'   Assyrian Eastern  ܗܝܡܢܘܬܐ hèmanūta   'faith'  Western  ܗܪܟܗ harcë    'here'  Armenian  Eastern  /hayeren   'Armenian'  AsturianSouth-central dialectsḥuerza 'force'Oriental dialectsḥacer[haˈθeɾ]"to do" Avar      'oath'  Azeri  hin    'chicken coop' Basque  North-Eastern dialects      'three'  Bengali  /haoua   'wind'  Berber      'shoe' Cantabrianmuḥer[muˈheɾ]'woman' Catalan      'ha!'  Chechen   /     'this'  Chinese  Cantonese   /     'sea' Taiwanese Mandarin   /    Danish      'house' English  high    'high'  Esperanto     'home' Eastern Lombard  Val Camonica      'Brescia'  Estonian      'tooth'  Faroese      'she'  Finnish      'tooth'  French Belgian      'pannier' GalicianOccidental, central, and some oriental dialectsgato[ˈhätʊ]'cat' Georgian  /hava   'climate'  German      'hatred' Greek  Cypriot  /mahazi   'shop' Hawaiian      'shelf' Hebrew  /har  'mountain'  Hindi Standard  /ham   'we' Hmong      'to honor'  Hungarian      'right'  Irish  shroich    'reached' Italian  Tuscan      'the captains' Japanese   /     'bare skin'  Javanese  ꦩꦲ/Maha    The expert, Almighty one  Kabardian  / tkhyl"khė   'books'  Khmer   /  /     'spicy''old'  Korean   /     'day' Lakota      'voice' Lao  /haa   'five' Leonese      'boy' Lezgian  /g'ek   'glue' Limburgish  Some dialects      'glove' Luxembourgish      'here' Malay      'day'  Mutsun      'dog'  Navajo      'mister'  Norwegian      'hat'  Pashto  /ho   'yes'  Persian  /haft   'seven'  Pirahã      'he'  Portuguese  Many Brazilian dialects      'sledgehammer' Most dialects     'Honda' Minas Gerais (mountain dialect)     'art'  Colloquial Brazilian Pará Federal University – The pronunciation of /s/ and its variations across Bragança municipality's Portuguese  Rio de Janeiro Federal University – The variation of post-vocallic /S/ in the speech of Petrópolis, Itaperuna and Paraty       'drizzle'  Romanian      'bridle' Scottish Gaelic   'topsail' Serbo-Croatian  Croatian      'hops'  Spanish  Andalusian and Extremaduran Spanish      'fig'  Many dialects      'bishop' Some dialects      'pony'  Swedish     'hat'  Sylheti  /hamukh   'snail'  Thai  /haa  'five' Turkish     'carpet' Ubykh  дуаха[dwaha] 'prayer'  Ukrainian    'claws'  Urdu Standard  /ham   'we'  Vietnamese     'understand'  Welsh      'sun' West Frisian    'corner' Yi  /    'hundred'

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Category:Consonants