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We drew the silent letter of the alphabet! Do you like the way we painted it? It was so much fun doing so much with a single color, it was definitely a challenge. How about you come to Coloring Together and challenge yourself? You'll surely do impressive things with the letter H coloring pages.

Come, in the gallery we grouped the best drawings with the letter H on the web, plus we have coloring drawings of the letter H, and drawings of words with the letter H. Which one are you thinking of starting with? Because we want to be part of your artistic process.

With tempera you can apply several techniques: flat color, finger painting, shading, gradient and even blending! Wouldn't you like to apply one of those techniques? With wax crayons you can make gradients or apply the scratching technique. What do you say?

When you finish the letter H pictures to print and color, send us a photo! We want to share your art with the world, which is why we'll publish your drawing in a special gallery when you finish.

Nervous? Don't be! This is an adventure where we'll paint a small and sweet letter that, although it's silent, is very useful for communicating. A few strokes and you'll fill the letter H coloring pages with life and color.

The letter H coloring pages

Why color the letter h pictures?

This time we want to tell you about the silent letter of the alphabet. The letter H is the eighth letter of the Spanish alphabet, and of the basic Latin alphabet. Some sources indicate that the origin of the H comes from France, according to the Royal Spanish Academy.

From the Phoenician alphabet, the letter H was incorporated and adapted into the Greek alphabet, as a grapheme (eta), and from there it entered the Latin alphabet by the hand of the Romans.

Wow, this letter sure is interesting! Why not give painting this theme a try? In the gallery we have letter H coloring pages with which you can learn a lot.

Why? Because at Coloring Together we add very curious curiosities to each drawing, with the goal of you learning a lot while you color. Don't you like the idea? It'll be so much fun!

Learn while coloring The letter H

  1. According to the Royal Spanish Academy, the Spanish name of the H, 'hache', came through French and is related to 'hacca' from Vulgar Latin, which corresponded to an aspirated phoneme. The letter itself, however, has a much older origin: it comes from the Phoenician alphabet.
  2. In Italian, the letter H has no phonetic value, but it does have a function, and that is to be a diacritical grapheme, that is, a kind of graphic accent.
  3. In Vulgar Latin, the words we now know are written with H (for example: hermoso or hablar) were written with the letter F (fermoso, fablar).
  4. The letter H is the only grapheme that doesn't represent any sound. But even so, more than 2,000 words start with the letter H.
  5. It is believed that, after the Phoenicians, the Greeks took the letter H and gave it the pronunciation of a soft aspiration, similar to what we do today.
  6. In several Romance languages, such as Italian, the letter H doesn't represent any phonetic value.
  7. The letter H, unlike others, is a letter of origin, that is, it's an etymological and not phonetic consonant.
  8. It is believed that the first to use the letter H were the Phoenicians. They pronounced it like an aspirated J.
  9. It is said that the H, after passing from the Greeks, reached Latin, where its sound softened more, until it disappeared.
  10. In French, the letter H is silent, however, in some cases it can represent an aspiration, especially in words of Germanic origin.
  11. In some ancient texts, such as the Cantar del Mío Cid, you can find words that started with the letter F, but that today start with the letter H, for example: hermosa.
  12. There are words that Spanish has borrowed from other languages and whose H has been silenced, for example: alhaja, higiene, hamburguesa, harakiri, among others.
  13. The H is not silent for everyone. In fact, there are many Spanish speakers who use it and give it the sound of J, for example, in some areas of Spain, such as Western Andalusia, or in some places between Salamanca and Extremadura.

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