Śawt
Ethiopic letter
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Śawt ሠ is a letter of the Geʽez script,[1]: 36 descended from Epigraphic South Arabian 
, in Geʽez 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 | Modern South Arabian | Akkadian | Arabic | Phoenician | Hebrew | Aramaic | Geʽez | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ś /ɬ/ | /ɬ/ | š | ش | /ʃ/ |  | /ʃ/ | שׂ | /s/ | שׂ | /s/ | ሠ | /ɬ/ |
See also
- Ḍäppa ṣ́ ፀ
- Proto-Semitic
- Sat (letter) s ሰ
- Shin (letter)