Heth

Heth
For other uses, see Heth (disambiguation).
Heth
Phoenician Hebrew Aramaic Syriac Arabic
Heth ח Heth ܚ ح‍,ح
Alphabetic
derivatives		 Greek Latin Cyrillic
Η H И
Phonemic representation: ħ / χ / x
Position in alphabet: 8
Numerical (Gematria/Abjad) value: 8

Ḥet or H̱et (also spelled Khet, Kheth, Chet, Cheth, Het, or Heth) is the reconstructed name of the eighth letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, continued in descended Semitic alphabets as Phoenician ḥēth Phoenician heth.png, Syriac ḥēth ܚ, Hebrew ḥēth (also khet or chet) ח, Arabic ḥāʾ ح, and Berber 2D43.png.

Heth originally represented a voiceless fricative, either pharyngeal /ħ/, or velar /x/ (the two Proto-Semitic phonemes having merged in Canaanite). In Arabic, two corresponding letters were created for both phonemic sounds: unmodified ḥāʾ ح represents /ħ/, while ḫāʾ خ represents /x/.

In modern Israeli Hebrew, the historical phonemes of the letters Ḥet ח (/ħ/) and Khaf כ (/x/) merged, both becoming the voiceless uvular fricative ([χ]).

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Eta (Η), Etruscan H


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