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{{Infobox grapheme|image=Latin small letter H with left hook.svg|typedesc=ic|script=Latin script|type=alphabet|usageperiod=1920-30|phonemes={{IPAblink|ʔ}}|equivalents=[[Hard sign|Ъ]], [[Palochka|ӏ]]|letter=[[File:Latin_capital_letter_enlarged_small_H_with_left_hook.svg|40x40px]], [[File:Latin_small_letter_H_with_left_hook.svg|39x39px]]|mode=|direction=left to right|alphanumber=11th|number=|variations=[[File:Latin capital H with left hook.svg|12px]]|language=[[Abaza language]], [[Kabardian language]], proposed for [[Sotho-Tswana languages]]}}

'''H with left hook''' ([[File:Latin_capital_letter_enlarged_small_H_with_left_hook.svg|12x12px]], [[File:Latin_small_letter_H_with_left_hook.svg|11x11px]]) is an additional letter of the [[Latin script]] which was used in the writing of the [[Abaza language|Abaza]] and the [[Kabardian language|Kabardian]] languages in the 1920s and was proposed for the writing of the [[Sotho–Tswana languages|Sotho-Tswana]] language in 1929.

== Usage ==

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</gallery>A. N. Tucker used h with left hook in his proposal for an aphlabet for the [[Sotho–Tswana languages|Sotho-Tswana]] language in 1929, with a capital form based on the form of the capital letter H.{{Sfn|Tucker|1929|p=132, 135}}

[[Clement Martyn Doke]] used h with left hook to represent a prevelar fricative notably in the description of the [[Pulana language|Pulana]] and [[Kutswe language|Kutswe]] dialects of the [[Northern Sotho language]].{{Sfn|Doke|1954|p=122, 249}}

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File:Abaza latin alphabet.jpg|Abaza alphabet from the 1930s.|link=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaza_latin_alphabet.jpg|Abaza alphabet from the 1930s.

File:Кабардинские алфавиты.PNG|Kabardian alphabets throughout history, showing h with left hook.

</gallery>H with left hook was used in the writing of certain languages of the Soviet Union in the 1930s.<gallery>