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Main sound category: Fricatives
Sound category: voiceless glottal fricative
IPA symbol: h
IPA description: voiceless glottal fricative
UPSID symbol: h
UPSID description: voiceless "h"
Occurs in 307 languages
That is in 62.40% of all languages
Occurs in: Abar Abau Abidji Abipon Abishira Achumawi Acoma Adzera Ahtna Ainu Akan Alabama Albanian Aleut Alladian Amahuaca Amele Amharic Amo Amuzgo Andoke Angas Arabela Arabic Arabic_Modern Standard Arabic Archi Armenian Avar Azande Azerbaijani Bakairi Bambara Barasano Bariba Bashkir Batak Bats Beembe Beja Bella coola Bengali_Bangladesh Bengali_Calcutta Berta Birom Bobo-fing Bodo Brahui Breton Bruu Burmese Burushaski Cacua Caddo Campa Cantonese Carib Cayapa Cayuvava Cham Chamorro Changzhou Chatino Cherokee Chipewyan Cofan Dadibi Dahalo Daju Dakota Dani Danish Dari Diola Dizi Doayo Dogon English English_American English_Australian Epena pedee Eyak Farsi Fasu Fe?fe? Finnish Fur Ga Gbeya Gelao Georgian German Guahibo Guajiro Gwari Hadza Haida Hakka Hamer Hausa Hawaiian Hixkaryana Hmong Hopi Huari Huasteco Huave Hungarian Hupa Iai Iban Igbo Ik Indonesian Iranxe Iraqw Irish Island carib Isoko Itonama Ivatan Iwam Jacaltec Japanese Japreria Javanese Jingpho Kaingang Kaliai Kanuri Karok Kawaiisu Kefa Kera Ket Khasi Khmer Khmu? Kiowa Klamath Kohumono Koiari Koma Konkani Korean Kotoko Koya Kullo Kunama Kurukh Kven Kwakw'ala Kwoma Lahu Lai Lak Lakkia Lame Lelemi Lenakel Lua Lue Lugbara Luiseno Lungchow Luo Lushootseed Maidu Malagasy Mambila Maranao Maxakali Mazahua Mazatec Mbum Mien Mixtec Moghol Monguor Mor Movima Moxo Mumuye Mundari Mursi Nama Navajo Ndut Neo-aramaic Nepali NepaliOH Nera Nez perce Ngizim Nicobarese Nimboran Nivkh Norwegian Norwegian_Bergen Norwegian_Elverum Norwegian_Malm Norwegian_Oslo Norwegian_Sandnessjøen Norwegian_Stavanger Norwegian_Tromsø Norwegian_Trondheim Nubian Nyah kur Ocaina Ormuri Pacoh Paez Papago Pashto Paya Persian Phlong Picuris Piraha Po-ai Pomo Quechua Quileute Resigaro Romanian Roro Rukai Rutul Sa'ban Saami Saliba Sama Sandawe Sango Sedang Selepet Seneca Sentani Shasta Shilha Shiriana Shuswap Sierra miwok Siona Siriono Socotri Somali Southern nambiquara Sre Sui Swahili Swedish Tabi Tagalog Taishan Tama Tamang Tamasheq Tamil Tampulma Taoripi Tarascan Tarok Tehuelche Teke Temne Tetun Thai Tiddim chin Tigre Tigrinya Tiruray Tlapanec Tol Tonkawa Totonac Trumai Tseshaht Tsimshian Tsou Tunica Turkish Tzeltal Upper chehalis Uzbek Vietnamese Wapishana Wappo Warao West makian Wintu Woisika Xiamen Yagaria Yagua Yana Yaqui Yay Yessan-mayo Yoruba Yucatec Yuchi Yucuna Yulu Yupik Zoque Zulu Zuni