| Above: | Voiceless pharyngeal trill (voiceless epiglottal fricative) |
| Ipa Symbol: | ʜ |
| Ipa Number: | 172 |
| Decimal1: | 668 |
| X-Sampa: | H\ |
| Braille2: | h |
| Imagefile: | IPA Unicode 0x029C.svg |
The voiceless epiglottal or pharyngeal trill, or voiceless epiglottal fricative,[1] is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (IPA|ʜ), a small capital version of the Latin letter h, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is H\.
The glyph is homoglyphic with the lowercase Cyrillic letter En (н).
Features of the voiceless epiglottal trill/fricative:
| Language | Word | Meaning | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ме'''хӏ''' | pronounced as /[mɛʜ]/ | 'whey' | ||||
| Amis[2] | ti'''h'''i | pronounced as /[tiʜiʔ]/ | 'spouse' | The epiglottal consonants in Amis have proven hard to describe, with some describing it not as epiglottal, but a pharyngeal fricative or even as a uvular consonant. See Amis phonology | ||
| Iraqi[3] | Arabic: حَي | [ʜaj] | 'alive' | Corresponds to pronounced as //ħ// (ح) in Standard Arabic. See Arabic phonology | ||
| Bengali: খড় | pronounced as /[ʜↄɾ]/ | 'straw' | Mainly realized as such in very eastern regions; often also debuccalized or phonetically realised as pronounced as //x//. Corresponds to pronounced as //kʰ// in western and central dialects. See Bengali phonology | |||
| Chechen: хьо | pronounced as /[ʜʷɔ]/ | 'you' | ||||
| pronounced as /[ʜaːɗo]/ | 'arrow' | |||||
| Haida: '''x̱'''ants | pronounced as /[ʜʌnt͡s]/ | 'shadow' | ||||
| Somali[4] | Somali: '''x'''oor | pronounced as /[ʜoːɾ]/ | 'bubble' | Realization of /ħ/ for some speakers. See Somali phonology | ||
pronounced as /navigation/