{"id":39172,"count":1,"description":"\u1e24et or H\u0331et (also spelled Khet, Kheth, Chet, Cheth, Het, or Heth) is the reconstructed name of the eighth letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, continued in descended Semitic alphabets as Phoenician \u1e25\u0113th , Syriac \u1e25\u0113th \u071a, Hebrew \u1e25\u0113th (also khet or chet) \u05d7, Arabic \u1e25\u0101\u02be \u062d, and Berber .\nHeth originally represented a voiceless fricative, either pharyngeal \/\u0127\/, or velar \/x\/ (the two Proto-Semitic phonemes having merged in Canaanite). In Arabic, two corresponding letters were created for both phonemic sounds: unmodified \u1e25\u0101\u02be \u062d represents \/\u0127\/, while \u1e2b\u0101\u02be \u062e represents \/x\/.\nIn modern Israeli Hebrew, the historical phonemes of the letters \u1e24et \u05d7 (\/\u0127\/) and Khaf \u05db (\/x\/) merged, both becoming the voiceless uvular fricative ([\u03c7]).\nThe Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Eta (\u0397), Etruscan ","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/heth\/","name":"Heth","slug":"heth","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/39172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=39172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}