or H̱et (also spelled Khet, Kheth, Chet, Cheth, Het, or Heth)'s the reconstructed name of the eighth letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, continued in descended Semitic alphabets as Phoenician , Syriac ܚ, Hebrew chet (also khet), Arabic (in abjadi order), and Berber . Heth originally represented a voiceless fricative, either pharyngeal /ħ/, or velar /x/ (the two Proto-Semitic phonemes having merged in Canaanite). In Arabic, two corresponding letters were created for both phon… (More on Heth)