Śawt
Sign in to saveŚawt ሠ is a letter of the Geʽez script, descended from Epigraphic South Arabian 14px, in Geʽez representing ś. It is reconstructed as descended from a Proto-Semitic voiceless lateral fricative , like the Welsh pronunciation of the ll in llwyd. It survived only in South Semitic as an independent phoneme.
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Śawt ሠ is a letter of the Geʽez script, descended from Epigraphic South Arabian 14px, in Geʽez representing ś. It is reconstructed as descended from a Proto-Semitic voiceless lateral fricative , like the Welsh pronunciation of the ll in llwyd. It survived only in South Semitic as an independent phoneme.
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" ! width="14%" | Proto-Semitic !Modern South Arabian ! width="14%" | Akkadian ! width="14%" colspan="2" | Arabic ! width="14%" colspan="2" | Phoenician ! width="14%" colspan="2" | Hebrew ! width="14%" colspan="2" | Aramaic ! width="14%" colspan="2" | Geʽez |- ! | | | || | 16px|š || | || | || | || |- |}
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