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Gh is a digraph found in many languages. Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ...
Gh in English
In English, "gh" historically represented /x/ (the voiceless velar fricative). In modern English, "gh" is either silent or pronounced /f/ (see ough). When gh occurs at the beginning of a word in English, it is pronounced /g/ as in "ghost", "ghastly", "ghoul", "ghetto", "ghee" etc. In transcriptions from various languages, gh usually represents the voiced velar fricative (/ɣ/), a guttural. Like kh /x/, gh /ɣ/ may also be heard pharyngealized (like in several Caucasian and Native American languages). In Aryan languages, Sanskrit, Hindi, and Proto-Indo-European, gh represents a voiced velar aspirated plosive (stop, tenue) /gʰ/ (often referred to as a breathy murmurred voiced velar plosive) The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
The voiceless velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. ...
ough is a combination in the English language. ...
The voiced velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ...
The term Caucasian languages is loosely used to refer to a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than 7 million people in the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. ...
Native American languages are the indigenous languages of the Americas, spoken by Native Americans from the southern tip of South America to Alaska and Greenland. ...
Gh in Irish In Irish, Gh represents /ɣ/ (the voiced velar fricative) and /j/ (the voiced palatal approximant). Word-initially it represents the lenition of g, for example mo ghiall [mə jiəɫ] "my jaw" (cf. giall [gʲiəɫ] "jaw"). 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. ...
Għ in Maltese This is a single letter in Maltese referred to as "Għajn". It is usually silent, but it is necessary to be included because it changes the pronunciation of neighbouring letters, usually lengthening the succeeding vowels. At the end of a word (when not substituted by an apostrophe), it has the sound of "h". |
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