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The voiceless pharyngeal fricative is a type of Consonant al sound, used in some Spoken Language s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is H-bar (), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is X\. FEATURES Features of the voiceless pharyngeal fricative:
OCCURRENCE This sound is the most commonly cited realization of the Semitic letter Hēth , which occurs in most dialects of Arabic , Classical Syriac, as well as Biblical and Tiberian Hebrew . It has also been reconstructed as appearing in Ancient Egyptian, a related Afro-Asiastic language. Modern non-Oriental Hebrew has 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 SEE ALSO REFERENCES |
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