Voiceless pharyngeal fricative

IPA mark	H
IPA number	144
IPA character description	Latin lower case H with a dash
Unicode	U + 0127
HTML (dec.)	& # 295;
X-SAMPA	X\
Kirshenbaum	H
Audio sample ? / i [ ħaːʔaħaː ]

The voiceless fricative pharyngale is a voiceless , the throat educated fricative , typical of Semitic and Cushitic languages is. It also occurs in the languages ​​of the Caucasus and in some other, mostly small and little-known languages.

He has the following orthographic realizations in different languages :

• Arabic [⁠ ħ ⁠] : ح (U + 062D)
  • Example: / muˈħamːad /
• Old Ethiopian , Tigrinya , Tigré and Argobba (not written): ሐ (Unicode: U + 1210)
  • Example from Argobba: / mɛħrɛʃa / plow
• Somali : X, x (in the Latin alphabet; since 1972)
• Afar : C, c (Latin alphabet)

The voiceless pharyngeal fricative is a sound very similar to what you make when you breathe on your glasses to clean them. It is a sound that is formed in the larynx and does not correspond to the "ch" sound in "I" that is formed in the oral cavity.

See also

• consonant

Pulmonary consonants according to IPA (2005)	bilabial		labio- dental		dental		alveolar		post- alveolar		retroflex		palatal		velar		uvular		phase- ryngal		glottal
	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.
Plosives	​p​	​b​					​t​	​d​			​ʈ​	​ɖ​	​c​	​ɟ​	​k​	​ɡ​	​q​	​ɢ​			​ʔ​
Nasals		​m​		​ɱ​				​n​				​ɳ​		​ɲ​		​ŋ​		​ɴ​
Vibrants		​ʙ​						​r​										​ʀ​
Taps / flaps				​ⱱ​				​ɾ​				​ɽ​
Fricatives	​ɸ​	​β​	​f​	​v​	​θ​	​ð​	​s​	​z​	​ʃ​	​ʒ​	​ʂ​	​ʐ​	​ç​	​ʝ​	​x​	​ɣ​	​χ​	​ʁ​	​H​	​ʕ​	​H​	​ɦ​
lateral fricatives							​ɬ​	​ɮ​
Approximants				​ʋ​				​ɹ​				​ɻ​		​j​		​w​ ¹
lateral approximants								​l​				​ɭ​		​ʎ​		​ʟ​
¹ The labialised variant [ w ] was inserted here as a voiced velar approximant ( half vowel ) instead of the non-labialised variant [ ɰ ].