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.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Aramaic letter ḥeth 1
Phoenician letter heth canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

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 ⓘ
gaveRiseTo Arabic letter ḥāʼ ⓘ
Aramaic letter ḥeth ⓘ
Geʽez letter Ḥau ⓘ
linked to: Geʽez script

Greek letter eta ⓘ
Hebrew letter ḥet ⓘ
South Arabian letter ḥ ⓘ
Syriac letter ḥeth ⓘ
hasDescendant Arabic letter ح ⓘ
Greek letter Η ⓘ
linked to: Greek letter eta

Hebrew letter ח ⓘ
Syriac letter ܚ ⓘ
hasGraphicalForm angular linear shape typical of Phoenician script ⓘ
hasNameVariant heth ⓘ
ḥeth ⓘ
historicalPeriod Iron Age Levant ⓘ
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 ⓘ
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 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

eta → derivedFrom → Phoenician letter heth ⓘ
subject linked to: Greek letter eta
Phoenician letter heth → gaveRiseTo → Aramaic letter ḥeth ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician letter heth