From the Etruscan letter 𐌇 (h, “he”), from the Ancit Greek letter Η (Ē, “eta”), derived from the Phoician letter 𐤇 (ḥ, “het”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓈈 or maybe 𓉗.
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Borrowed from Japanese H (etchi), initialism of 変態 (htai, “sexual perversion”). Sometimes reinterpreted by Chinese speakers as initialism of Mandarin 黃／黄 (huáng ) or Cantonese 鹹／咸 (haam4 ).
A Brief History Of The Letter H
The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on Swedish, German and Latin. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and H for developmt of the glyph itself.
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scitific commission headed by K. Mīlbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had be writt in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.
The letter H/h (like F/f, and O/o represting [o], [oː] instead of [uə̯]) is found only in words of foreign origin (borrowings). Note that it represts the sound of IPA [x] (like German mach, ach), not (as in most other alphabets based on the Latin script) the sound of IPA [h].
Buchstaben Alphabet Clip Art
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 developmt of the glyph itself.
From Gaj's Latin alphabet H, from Czech alphabet H, from Latin H, from the Etruscan letter 𐌇 (h, “he”), from the Ancit Greek letter Η (Ē, “eta”), derived from the Phoician letter 𐤇 (ḥ, “het”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓈈 or maybe 𓉗. Pronunciation as /xə/ is initial Slove (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably tak from German H.
In Metelko alphabet, the phoneme was writt by two differt 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 writt with 〈H〉, while /x/ was writt with a yet to be coded character .
