Alphabet · Alifbeetada · Consonants

H

H

ha · H is light; X is heavy. Listening to hooyo and then xalwo makes the difference clear.
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The sound

H is the ordinary English h in "hat", light and breathy. Compare it with X, which is the same idea made much deeper in the throat.

Example words

Hooyomother
Hilibmeat
Habeennight

Teaching the letter H

Say the letter with a short a after it, "ha", the way Somali children chant the alphabet, then say each example word slowly and let your child find the letter in it. Somali spelling is completely regular, so once a child knows the sound of H they can read it in any word.

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