Śawt
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.
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Template:Semxlit | Template:Semxlit | ش | Template:ArabDIN | Template:Semxlit | שׂ | Template:Semxlit | שׂ | Template:Semxlit | ሠ | Template:Semxlit |