Shha Explained

Ha or He (Shha in Unicode) (Һ һ; italics:

Һ һ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Latin letter H (H h h), but the capital forms are more similar to a rotated Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч) or a stroke-less Tshe (Ћ ћ) because the Cyrillic letter En (Н н) already has the same form as the Latin letter H.

Most of the languages using the letter call it ha - the name shha was created when the letter was encoded in Unicode, as the name ha was already taken by Kha. (Х х)

Shha often represents the voiceless glottal fricative pronounced as //h//, like the pronunciation of (h) in "hat"; and is used in the alphabets of the following languages:

Language Notes Phoneme
1939–1991, now uses a Latin alphabet (Still used by Dagestan) /h/,/ħ/
pronounced as //h//
pronounced as //h//
pronounced as //h//
pronounced as /link/
Only used in Arabic, Persian loanwords and some exceptions pronounced as /link/
Also represented by the modifier letter apostrophe (ʼ)pronounced as /link/
pronounced as //h//
pronounced as //h//
Yakutpronounced as //h//

See also

References

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF . The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 . 2010 . 42 . 2011-05-18.