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'''Śawt''' <big>{{Unicode|ሠ}}</big> is a letter of the [[Ge'ez abugida]], descended from [[South Arabian alphabet|Epigraphic South Arabian]] [[Image: |
'''Śawt''' <big>{{Unicode|ሠ}}</big> is a letter of the [[Ge'ez abugida]], descended from [[South Arabian alphabet|Epigraphic South Arabian]] [[Image:himjar_shin.PNG|14px]], but representing ś like ESA [[Image:himjar za.PNG|14px]]. It is reconstructed as descended from a [[Proto-Semitic]] [[voiceless lateral fricative]] {{Semxlit|*ś}} {{IPA|[ɬ]}}. It survived only in [[South Semitic]] as an independent phoneme. |
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Śawt ሠ is a letter of the Ge'ez abugida, descended from Epigraphic South Arabian , but representing ś like ESA . It is reconstructed as descended from a Proto-Semitic voiceless lateral fricative Template:Semxlit [ɬ]. It survived only in South Semitic as an independent phoneme.
Proto-Semitic | Akkadian | Arabic | Phoenician | Hebrew | Aramaic | Ge'ez | |||||
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Template:Semxlit | Template:Semxlit | ش | Template:ArabDIN | Template:Semxlit | שׂ | Template:Semxlit | שׂ | Template:Semxlit | ሠ | Template:Semxlit |