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
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