Śawt

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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
ś	š	ش	š		š	שׂ‎	s	שׂ‎	s	ሠ	ś

See also

• Ḍäppa ṣ́ ፀ
• Proto-Semitic
• Sat (letter) s ሰ
• Shin (letter)