or (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 . Heth originally represented a voiceless fricative, either pharyngeal, or velar (the two Proto-Semitic phonemes having merged in Canaanite). In Arabic, two corresponding letters were created for both phonemic sounds: unmodified ' represents, while ' represents . In modern Israeli Hebrew, the historical ph… (More on Heth)