hˀ vs ɦ

Voiceless Glottal Fricative vs Voiced Glottal Fricative

How these sounds differ

hˀ

Voiceless Glottal Fricative

Voicing: voiceless
Place: glottal
Manner: fricative
Class: consonant
In languages: 1 / 500

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Voiced Glottal Fricative

Voicing: voiced
Place: glottal
Manner: fricative
Class: consonant
In languages: 26 / 500

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Cross-linguistic distribution

Languages with hˀ

Languages with both

Languages with ɦ

0 languages in our database contrast both sounds as distinct phonemes. Languages that have one but not the other tend to merge them into a single phoneme — meaning speakers of those languages often struggle to hear the distinction when learning a language that contrasts them.

Has hˀ, not ɦ (1)

SOUTHERN NAMBIQUARA Nambiquaran

Has ɦ, not hˀ (20)

Kharia Austroasiatic NEWARI Sino-Tibetan LAME Afro-Asiatic !XU Kxa Kashimiri Indo-European Wichita Caddoan Karen Sino-Tibetan Dafla Sino-Tibetan Hindi-Urdu Indo-European Telugu Dravidian Wu Sino-Tibetan French Indo-European Urdu Indo-European Punjabi Indo-European Awadhi Indo-European Ukrainian Indo-European Dutch Indo-European Nepali Indo-European Assamese Indo-European Sinhalese Indo-European