He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Hē , Hebrew Hē , Aramaic Hē , Syriac Hē , and Arabic . Its sound value is the voiceless glottal fricative (). The proto-Canaanite letter gave rise to the Greek Epsilon Ε ε, Etruscan 𐌄, Latin E, Ë and Ɛ, and Cyrillic Е, Ё, Є, Э, and Ҩ. He, like all Phoenician letters, represented a consonant, but the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic equivalents have all come to represent vowel sounds. Origins In Proto-Northwest Semitic there were still three voiceless fricatives: uvular , glottal , and pharyngeal . In the Wadi el-Hol script, these appear to be expressed by derivatives of the following Egyptian hieroglyphs V28 "thread", A28 "jubilation", compare South Arabian , , , Ge'ez ሀ, ሐ, ኀ, and O6 "court". In the Phoenician alphabet, and are merged into Heth "fence", while is replaced by He "window". Arabic hāʾ The letter is named . It is written in several ways depending on its position in the word: is used as a suffix (with the dictated by ) indicating possession, indicating that the noun marked with the suffix belongs to a specific masculine possessor; for example, ("book") becomes ('his book') with the addition of final ; the possessor is implied in the suffix. A longer example, , (, "he reads his book") more clearly indicates the possessor. Hāʾ is also used as the Arabic abbreviation for dates following the Islamic era AH. The suffix appended to a verb represents a masculine object (e.g. , , 'he reads it'). The feminine form of this construction is in both cases . In Nastaʿlīq the letter has a variant, gol he, with its own particular shapes. As Urdu and other languages of Pakistan are usually written in Nastaʿlīq, they normally employ this variant, which is given an independent code point (U+06C1) for compatibility: For aspiration and breathy voice Urdu and other languages of Pakistan use the medial (in Nastaliq script) or initial (in Naskh script) form of hāʾ, called in Urdu ('two-eyed he'): Several Turkic languages of Central Asia like Uyghur as well as Kurdish also use this letter for fricative //. Arabic ae Many Turkic languages of Central Asia like Uyghur as well as Kurdish use the modification of the letter for front vowels // or //. This has its own code point (U+06D5). To distinguish it from Arabic hāʾ /h/