Voiceless pharyngeal fricative

Voiceless pharyngeal fricative
ħ
IPA Number144
Audio sample
Encoding
Entity (decimal)ħ
Unicode (hex)U+0127
X-SAMPAX\
Braille⠖ (braille pattern dots-235)⠓ (braille pattern dots-125)
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The voiceless pharyngeal fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is an h-bar, ħ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is X\. In the transcription of Arabic, Berber (and other Afro-Asiatic languages) as well as a few other scripts, it is often written ⟨Ḥ⟩, ⟨ḥ⟩.

Typically characterized as fricative in the upper pharynx, it is often characterized as a whispered [h].


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