Śawt ሠ 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 *ś [ɬ], like the
Welsh pronunciation of the ll in llwyd. It survived only in
South Semitic as an independent phoneme.
Proto-Semitic | Akkadian | Arabic | Phoenician | Hebrew | Aramaic | Ge'ez | |||||
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ś | š | ش | š |
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š | שׂ | s | שׂ | s | ሠ | ś |