Heth
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title:
Heth
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Heth, sometimes written Chet or Ḥet, is the eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ḥēt 𐤇, Hebrew ḥēt ח, Aramaic ḥēṯ 𐡇, Syriac ḥēṯ ܚ, and Arabic ḥāʾ ح. Heth originally represented a voiceless fricative, either pharyngeal, or velar. In Arabic, two corresponding letters were created for both phonemic sounds: unmodified ḥāʾ ح represents, while ḫāʾ خ represents. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek eta Η, Etruscan, Latin H, and Cyrillic X. While H is a consonant in the La
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Eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heth
date created:
2005-04-20T11:48:57Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T18:31:37Z
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