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Encyclopedia > Dh (digraph)

Dh (lowercase: dh) is a digraph consisting of the letters D and H. Note: This page or section contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... Look up D, d in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up H, h in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


Uses in Latin-based alphabets

Dh is the sixth letter in the Albanian alphabet, between D and E, representing the voiced dental fricative (/ð/). In Irish orthography it represents the voiced velar fricative [ɣ] or the voiced palatal approximant [j]; at the beginning of a word it shows the lenition of d, for example mo dhoras [mə ɣoɾəs] "my door" (cf. doras [d̪orəs] "door"). In the pre-1985 orthography of Guinea, dh was used for the voiced alveolar implosive [ɗ] in Pular, a Fula language. It is currently written ɗ. This article is about the alphabet of the Albanian language. ... Look up D, d in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up E, e in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The voiced dental non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Irish orthography has a reputation as being very difficult to learn and bearing only a tenuous relationship to the pronunciation. ... The voiced velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The palatal approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in very many spoken languages. ... Irish, like all modern Celtic languages, is characterized by its initial consonant mutations. ... Following independence, the government of Guinea adopted rules of transcription for the languages of Guinea based on the 26-letter Latin alphabet. ... The voiced alveolar implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Pular is a Fula language spoken primarily by Fula people in the Fouta Jalon, in the West African state of Guinea and also into Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone, with a small number of speakers in Mali. ... The Fula language is a language of West Africa, spoken by the Fula people from Senegal to Cameroon and Sudan. ...


Uses in transliteration

Dh is used in various ways in transcribing words from languages written in non-Latin scripts. In transcriptions of Indo-Aryan languages, for example, it represents the aspirated voiced dental plosive (/d̪ʰ/). The Indo-Aryan languages form a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian languages, thus belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. ... In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of air that accompanies the release of some obstruents. ... The voiced dental plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ...



 
 

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