Phoenician letter heth
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Phoenician letter heth is an ancient Semitic consonant whose shape and sound gave rise to several later alphabetic characters, including the Greek eta.
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Phoenician letter
ⓘ
Semitic consonant ⓘ consonant letter ⓘ |
| attestedIn | Phoenician inscriptions ⓘ |
| category | radical letter in Semitic abjads ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Proto-Canaanite letter ḥet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gaveRiseTo |
Arabic letter ḥāʼ
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aramaic letter ḥeth NERFINISHED ⓘ Geʽez letter Ḥau NERFINISHED ⓘ Greek letter eta NERFINISHED ⓘ Hebrew letter ḥet ⓘ South Arabian letter ḥ NERFINISHED ⓘ Syriac letter ḥeth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDescendant |
Arabic letter ح
ⓘ
Greek letter Η NERFINISHED ⓘ Hebrew letter ח ⓘ Syriac letter ܚ ⓘ |
| hasGraphicalForm | angular linear shape typical of Phoenician script ⓘ |
| hasNameVariant |
heth
ⓘ
ḥeth ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Iron Age Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | Latin letter H (indirectly via Greek eta and Etruscan) ⓘ |
| originLanguageFamily | Semitic languages ⓘ |
| phoneticValue |
/ħ/
ⓘ
voiceless pharyngeal fricative ⓘ |
| positionInAlphabet | eighth letter of the Phoenician alphabet ⓘ |
| representedSoundClass | guttural consonants ⓘ |
| script | Phoenician alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptType | consonantal alphabet ⓘ |
| scriptUsageStatus | no longer used in everyday writing ⓘ |
| standardTranscriptionSystem | Semitic epigraphy conventions ⓘ |
| transliteration |
Ḥ
ⓘ
ḥ ⓘ |
| unicodeBlock | Phoenician ⓘ |
| unicodeCodePoint | U+10907 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
writing Phoenician language
ⓘ
writing other Northwest Semitic languages ⓘ |
| writingDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| writingSystemFamily | Northwest Semitic abjad ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | abjad ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
eta