Voiceless pharyngeal fricative
The voiceless pharyngeal fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is an h-bar, ⟨ħ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is X\. In the transcription of Arabic, Berber (and other Afro-Asiatic languages) as well as a few other scripts, it is often written ⟨Ḥ⟩, ⟨ḥ⟩.
| Voiceless pharyngeal fricative | |||
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| ħ | |||
| IPA Number | 144 | ||
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| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ħ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+0127 | ||
| X-SAMPA | X\ | ||
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Typically characterized as fricative in the upper pharynx, it is often characterized as a whispered [h].
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