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2006, Robin Wooffitt, “Analysing the Organization of Successful Demonstrations of Paranormal Cognition”, in The Language of Mediums and Psychics: The Social Organization of Everyday Miracles (in English), Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 70:
PP: ·hh⎡y’know-, / R: [I used it today Doris for the first time. / You used it today? / R: yea(huh)s (Smiling voice) / (0.3) / PP: t·hhhh And ah’ve another voice come, an’ she says, she’s just bought a new cooker you know. ·hh they know-, they get to know everythi:ng,
2010, John Heritage, Steven Clayman, “Transcript Symbols”, in Talk in Action: Interactions, Identities, and Institutions (in English), →ISBN, pages 284 and 286:
Bee: ·hhhUh::, (0.3) I don’know I guess she’s aw- she’s awright she went to thee uh:: hhospital again tihda:y,[…]Hearable aspiration is shown where it occurs in the talk by the letter h – the more h’s, the more aspiration. The aspiration may represent breathing, laughter, etc. If it occurs inside the boundaries of a word, it may be enclosed in parentheses in order to set it apart from the sounds of the word. If the aspiration is an inhalation, it is shown with a dot before it (usually a raised dot) or a raised degree symbol. Bee: [Ba::]sk(h)etb(h)a(h)ll? (h)(°Whe(h)re.)[…]
2015, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Elwys De Stefani, Anne-Sylvie Horlacher, “The hanging topic construction as an interactional resource”, in Time and Emergence in Grammar: Dislocation, Topicalization and Hanging Topic in French Talk-in-Interaction (Studies in Language and Social Interaction; 28) (in English), John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, section 5 (Aphoristic HT formulations as closing devices), page 210:
.hhhh (0.1) donc pour moi les hommes eu::h
Usage notes
The UPA distinguishes glottal fricatives from glottal approximants. The voiceless and voiced fricatives ('spirants') are ȟ, ᴤ, while the voiceless and voiced approximants ('semivowels') are h, ɦ.[1]
Gallery
Letter styles
Uppercase and lowercase versions of H, in normal and italic type
“hʾ (lemma ID 97220)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and h for information on the development of the glyph itself.
Capitalized for the great octave or any octave below that, or in names of major keys; not capitalized for the small octave or any octave above that, or in names of minor keys.
(music)Alternative form of H(“B”, the seventh note in the C major scale, its symbol in writing or in print, or the equivalent key of a piano or stop of a stringed instrument)
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
(h ):h in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
(B in music):h in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (2016) Ortograpiya di Kankanaëy [Kankanaey Orthography] (in Kankanaey and Tagalog), →ISBN, pages 10-11
Kashubian
Etymology
The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and h for development of the glyph itself.
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.
The letter H/h (like F/f, and O/o representing , instead of ) is found only in words of foreign origin (borrowings). Note that it represents the sound of IPA (like Germanmachen, ach), not (as in most other alphabets based on the Latin script) the sound of IPA .
Continues Arabicه(h). In pre-modern Maltese, h still produces the sound as recorded by Agius de Soldanis (1750) and Mikel Anton Vassalli (1796). The early contemporary variant was first found in the dialect of lsien tal-bliet (“tongues of the cities”, referring to the cities around the Grand Harbour according to Vassalli) which eventually superseded the increasingly archaic sound in the neighboring areas.
in the clusters -għh-, -ħh-, -hh-, which all become .
Otherwise it is silent or leaves only a vocalic trace:
Following and preceding a, e, o are lengthened if stressed: hedded , fehmet . Other vowels are not affected.
In intervocalic position it is a glide, after i, ie, and after u: jibniha , inħobbuhom .
The sequence -aho- becomes : rahom . The sequence -ehi- becomes or : ftehim , .
On the other hand in pre-modern Maltese dialects that preserved the guttaral sounds, h remained as a true consonant with the aspirated and soft sound of in all positions except:
If word final h is an affixed pronoun: ħalluh , ħallih , fih .
Phonotactically, word-initial h now generally behaves like a vowel, allowing contractions such as m’hemmx . However, word-internal h still behaves like a (virtual) consonant. Compare for example qablu with qabilha , which latter is formed as though the l were followed by a consonant.
The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and h for development of the glyph itself.
Seemingly native words spelt with ⟨h⟩ (rather than ⟨ch⟩) are generally from Czech or other Slavic dialects. Otherwise ⟨h⟩ occurs in loanwords, especially from German. Some dialects distinguish between /x/ and /h/, but this is not part of standard Polish.
used to indicate time in relation to a 24-hour clock
O evento é hoje, às 20h ― The event is today at 8 p.m.
09h30 ― 09:30 a.m.
used to indicate any sequence of time in hours
O atleta completou a corrida em 1h20min45s ― The athlete completed the race in 1 hour, 21 minutes and 45 seconds
Usage notes
This abbreviation uses no spaces or points and must always follow a number (in its most common usage, a number between 0 and 23 to indicate the day's hours).
The abbreviation can be followed by a number between 00 and 59 to indicate the minutes of an hour (as in French). This can be optionally represented by another abbreviation: min.
Example: 15h30 or 15h30min, the first being much more common
min can be further followed by another abbreviation, s, to represent seconds.
The eighth letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script.It is preceded by g and followed by i. Its traditional name is uath(“hawthorn”).
The 12th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by g and followed by i.
Silesian
Etymology
The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and h for development of the glyph itself.
From Gaj's Latin alphabet h, from Czech alphabet h, from Latin h. Pronunciation as /xə/ is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from Germanh.
In Metelko alphabet, the phoneme was written by two different letters whether it was pronounced as velar /x/ or glottal /h/, a distinction irrelevant to nowadays standard and the distinction was also not used by all writers. Phoneme /h/ was written with 〈h〉, while /x/ was written with a yet to be encoded character .
Preposition h is a form of preposition k that appears before words that start with /k/ or /ɡ/ while other form is used for all other words. In "correct" pronunciation, the preposition does not form its own syllable, but binds to the first syllable of the next word and has therefore two pronunciations: if word starts with and if word starts with . In colloquial speech, this form (or at least its pronunciation) are also used with words starting with other letters.
Kenda-Jež, Karmen (2017 February 27) Fonetična trankripcija [Phonetic transcription] (in Slovene), Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša, archived from the original on January 22, 2022, pages 27–30
Further reading
“h”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024
Over time, some of the loaned Spanish words still spelled with the silent ⟨h⟩ are spoken with /h/ due to spelling pronunciation, as people are becoming less aware of the letter being silent.