Voiceless pharyngeal fricative
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A 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, Template:Angbr IPA. In the transcription of Arabic, Berber (and other Afro-Asiatic languages) as well as a few other scripts, it is often written Template:Angbr, Template:Angbr.
Typically characterized as fricative in the upper pharynx, similar to Template:IPAblink, except that the latter is placed at the glottis instead.
Features
Features of a voiceless pharyngeal fricative:
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Occurrence
This sound is the most commonly cited realization of the Semitic letter hēth, which occurs in all dialects of Arabic, Classical Syriac, Western Neo-Aramaic, Central Neo-Aramaic, Ge'ez, Tigre, Tigrinya as well as Biblical, Mishnaic and Mizrahi Hebrew. It has also been reconstructed as appearing in Ancient Egyptian, a related Afro-Asiatic language. Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Ashkenazi Hebrew and most speakers of Modern Hebrew have merged the voiceless pharyngeal fricative with the voiceless velar (or uvular) fricative. However, phonetic studies have shown that the so-called voiceless pharyngeal fricatives of Semitic languages are often neither pharyngeal (but rather epiglottal) nor fricatives (but rather approximants).[1]
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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| Abaza | Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'stone' | ||
| Abkhaz | Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'we' | See Abkhaz phonology | |
| Adyghe | Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "lang"./Script error: No such module "Lang". | Template:ErrorTemplate:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler | 'god' | ||
| Afar | dalcu | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'striped hyena' | ||
| Agul | Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'barn' | ||
| Amis[2] | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'burn, roast' | Word-final allophone of /Template:IPA link/. | |
| Arabic[3] | Standard | Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "lang". | Template:ErrorTemplate:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler | 'situation' | See Arabic phonology |
| EssaouiraTemplate:Sfnp | Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "lang".) | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'chleuh' | ||
| Archi | Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'state' | ||
| Central Neo-Aramaic | Turoyo | Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "lang".) | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'Christ' | Corresponds with [x] in most other dialects. |
| Atayal | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'in/at/on him/her/it' | ||
| Avar | Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "lang"./Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'earwax' | ||
| Azerbaijani | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'instrument' | ||
| Chechen | Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "Lang". | Template:ErrorTemplate:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler | 'plum' | ||
| English | Some speakers, mostly of Received PronunciationTemplate:Sfnp | horrible | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'horrible' | Glottal Template:IPAblink for other speakers.Template:Sfnp See English phonology |
| French[4] | Some speakers | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'to do, to make' | |
| Galician[5] | Some dialects | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'cat' | Corresponds to Script error: No such module "IPA". in other dialects. See Galician phonology and gheada |
| Hebrew | Mizrahi | Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "lang". | Template:ErrorTemplate:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler | 'electricity' | Merged with Template:IPAblink for most modern speakers. See Modern Hebrew phonology. |
| Temani | Script error: No such module "Lang"./aḥoḏ | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'one' | Yemenite pronunciation of the letter chet. Merged with Script error: No such module "IPA". in most other dialects. See Yemenite Hebrew | |
| Hindustani | Hindi | Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'hafiz' | In Hindi, it appears as a rare phonetic transcription;[6] in Urdu, the sound is preserved in formal and Quranic contexts.[7] See Hindustani phonology |
| Urdu | Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | |||
| Judeo-Spanish | Haketia | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'Haketia' | Borrowed from Arabic and Hebrew |
| Jerusalem | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'small vegetable garden' | Borrowed from Arabic and Hebrew | |
| Kabardian | Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "Lang". | Template:ErrorTemplate:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler | 'ship' | ||
| Kabyle | Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'hairdresser' | ||
| Kullui | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'twenty' | Script error: No such module "IPA". historically derives from Script error: No such module "IPA". and occurs word-finallyTemplate:Sfn | ||
| Kurdish | Most speakers | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Template:ErrorTemplate:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler | 'environment' | Corresponds to Script error: No such module "IPA". in some Kurdish dialects |
| Leonese | Riberan | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'flour' | |
| Maltese | Standard | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'one' | |
| Nuu-chah-nulth | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'friendly' | ||
| Sioux | Nakota | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'yesterday' | |
| Somali | Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "Lang". | Template:ErrorTemplate:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler | 'cane' | See Somali phonology | |
| Tarifit | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'salt' | ||
| Ukrainian[8] | Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'fingernails' | Allophone of Script error: No such module "IPA". (which may be transcribed Script error: No such module "IPA".) before voiceless consonants;[8] can be fronted to Template:IPAblink in some "weak positions".[8] See Ukrainian phonology | |
See also
Notes
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References
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