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OK, now we got fun. The lower-case character appears incorrectly (as h- umlaut) in normal type but correctly if you put <big> tags around it:
Phil 18:03, Dec 11, 2003 (UTC)
I was wondering, how did they get the ĥ character to represent the X sound? I don't mind that it does, it's just that it is weird. Shouldn't it be a K with a ^ above it? That makes more sense I think. Is there something like it in Cyrillic that caused the sound to be represented this way? 76.188.26.92 22:05, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
This all goes back to the Greek alphabet. The original Greek alphabet used versions of the inherited Phoenician letters. Later it was found necessary to add some more letters, and X was one of these. In one version of the Greek Alphabet (the ancestor of the classical and modern Greek alphabets and also of the Cyrillic alphabet) X was used to represent the IPA /x/ sound (like the Scottish loch); in another version, which became the ancestor of the Roman alphabet, X was used to represent /ks/. -- rossb 23:37, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Khx 2A0B:6204:F2F8:6D00:E1AA:BB35:6B3D:1DA7 ( talk) 14:07, 3 January 2023 (UTC)