If H is h in English why is it...

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  1. delade

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    If H is h in English then H must be h in Spanish, right?

    No.. H is 'J' in Spanish.


    If H is h in English, then H is probably h in many of the 'Latin' alphabet languages.


    Old Latin alphabet Letter
    ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRSTVX

    Classical Latin alphabet
    Letter A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z
     
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    Many Countries in Asia do not use the Classical Latin alphabet.
     
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    The Latin alphabet spread, along with the Latin language, from the Italian Peninsula to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The eastern half of the Empire, including Greece, Turkey, the Levant, and Egypt, continued to use Greek as a lingua franca, but Latin was widely spoken in the western half, and as the western Romance languages evolved out of Latin, they continued to use and adapt the Latin alphabet.

    With the spread of Western Christianity during the Middle Ages, the script was gradually adopted by the peoples of northern Europe who spoke Celtic languages (displacing the Ogham alphabet) or Germanic languages (displacing earlier Runic alphabets), Baltic languages, as well as by the speakers of several Uralic languages, most notably Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian. The Latin alphabet came into use for writing the West Slavic languages and several South Slavic languages, as the people who spoke them adopted Roman Catholicism.

    Later, it was adopted by non-Catholic countries. Romanian, most of whose speakers are Eastern Orthodox, was the first major language to switch from Cyrillic to Latin script, doing so in the 19th century, although Moldova only did so after the Soviet collapse.

    It has also been increasingly adopted by majority Muslim Turkic-speaking countries, beginning with Turkey in the 1920s. After the Soviet collapse, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan all switched from Cyrillic to Latin. The Kazakh government announced in 2015 that the Latin alphabet will replace Cyrillic as the writing system for the Kazakh language by 2025.[2]

    Asian countries see the lowest proportion of people using Latin script relative to alternative scripts.

    The spread of the Latin alphabet among previously illiterate peoples has inspired the creation of new writing systems, such as the Avoiuli alphabet in Vanuatu, which replaces the letters of the Latin alphabet with alternative symbols.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet
     
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    J is the one to watch, not H.

    J in English is J
    J in French in Sh
    J in Spanish is H
    J in Norwegian is Y
     
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