Voiceless Velar Fricative
In the Goidelic languages, several Germanic languages, many Slavic languages that use the Latin alphabet instead of the Cyrillic alphabet, Welsh and others, ch represents the voiceless velar fricative . Additionally, "ch" is frequently used in transliterating into many European languages from Greek, Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic, and many others.
Breton has evolved a modified form of this digraph, c'h for representing, as opposed to ch, which stands for . In Manx, "ch" stands for, while is represented by çh.
In Rheinische Dokumenta, ch represents, as opposed to ch, which stands for .
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“We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it—to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)