Voiceless epiglottal trill

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 ʜ, a small capital version of the Latin letter h, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is H\.

Voiceless pharyngeal trill
(voiceless epiglottal fricative)
ʜ
IPA Number172
Audio sample
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Encoding
Entity (decimal)ʜ
Unicode (hex)U+029C
X-SAMPAH\
Braille⠔ (braille pattern dots-35) ⠓ (braille pattern dots-125)

The glyph is homoglyphic with the lowercase Cyrillic letter En (н).

Features

Features of the voiceless epiglottal trill/fricative:

Occurrence

LanguageWordIPAMeaningNotes
Agul[2]мехӏ[mɛʜ]'whey'
Amis[3]tihi[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
Arabic[4]Iraqi[5]حَي [ʜaj]'alive' Corresponds to /ħ/ (ح) in Standard Arabic. See Arabic phonology
Bengaliখড়[ʜↄɾ]'straw'Often debuccalized or phonetically realised as /x/. Corresponds to /kʰ/ in standard dialect. See Bengali phonology
Chechenхьо[ʜʷɔ]'you'
Dahalo[ʜaːɗo]'arrow'
Haidaants[ʜʌnt͡s]'shadow'
Somali[6] xoor [ʜoːɾ] 'bubble' Realization of /ħ/ for some speakers.[6] See Somali phonology

See also

Notes

  1. John Esling (2010) "Phonetic Notation", in Hardcastle, Laver & Gibbon (eds) The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences, 2nd ed., p 695.
  2. Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996:167–168)
  3. Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996:167–168)
  4. Zeki Hassan, John Esling, Scott Moisik, & lise Crevier-Buchman (2011) "Aryepiglottic trilled variants of /ʕ, ħ/ in Iraqi Arabic". Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 831834), Hong Kong.
  5. Gabbard, Kevin M. (2010). A Phonological Analysis of Somali and the Guttural Consonants (PDF) (BA Linguistics Honors Thesis). The Ohio State University. p. 14.

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