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| <font size="5" style="line-height:115%">{{script|Hebr|[[שׂ]]}}</font> || {{transl|sem|s}}
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| <font size="5" style="line-height:115%">{{script|Hebr|[[שׂ]]}}</font> || {{transl|sem|s}}
| <font size="5" style="line-height:115%">{{unicode|ሠ}}</font> || {{transl|sem|ś}}
| <font size="5" style="line-height:115%">{{script|Ethi||ሠ}}</font> || {{transl|sem|ś}}
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Revision as of 08:27, 1 January 2012

Śawt is a letter of the Ge'ez abugida, descended from Epigraphic South Arabian , in Ge'ez representing ś. It is reconstructed as descended from a Proto-Semitic voiceless lateral fricative [ɬ]. It survived only in South Semitic as an independent phoneme.

Proto-Semitic Akkadian Arabic Phoenician Hebrew Aramaic Ge'ez
ś š ش š š š שׂ s שׂ s ś

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