'H' is also used in many spelling systems in digraphs and trigraphs, such as 'ch', which represents /tʃ/ in Spanish, Galician, and Old Portuguese /ʃ/ in French and modern Portuguese /k/ in Italian and French.įor most English speakers, the name for the letter is pronounced as / eɪ tʃ/ and spelled "aitch" or occasionally "eitch". While Etruscan and Latin had /h/ as a phoneme, almost all Romance languages lost the sound- Romanian later re-borrowed the /h/ phoneme from its neighbouring Slavic languages, and Spanish developed a secondary /h/ from /f/, before losing it again various Spanish dialects have developed as an allophone of /s/ or /x/ in most Spanish-speaking countries, and various dialects of Portuguese use it as an allophone of /ʀ/. Thus, in the Old Italic alphabets, the letter Heta of the Euboean alphabet was adopted with its original sound value /h/. In this context, the letter eta is also known as Heta to underline this fact. The Greek Eta 'Η' in archaic Greek alphabets, before coming to represent a long vowel, /ɛː/, still represented a similar sound, the voiceless glottal fricative /h/. The form of the letter probably stood for a fence or posts. The original Semitic letter Heth most likely represented the voiceless pharyngeal fricative ( ħ). Its name in English is aitch (pronounced / ˈ eɪ tʃ/, plural aitches), or regionally haitch / ˈ h eɪ tʃ/. H, or h, is the eighth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
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