voiceless palato‐alveolar fricative
Also known as voiceless palato-alveolar fricative, voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant
consonantal sound
Key facts
- Entity decimal
- & #643;
- Unicode hex
- U+0283
- X sampa
- S
- Braille
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- IPA transcription
- ʃ
- X-SAMPA code
- S
- Kirshenbaum code
- S
- IPA Braille
- ⠱
- RFE symbol
- š
- catalog code
- 134
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Article
A voiceless postalveolar or palato-alveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. It is familiar to English-speakers as the "sh" sound in "ship".
The International Phonetic Association uses the phrase voiceless postalveolar fricative for the sibilant sound [ ʃ ], though technically it also describes the voiceless postalveolar non-sibilant fricative [ɹ̠̊˔], for which there are significant perceptual differences.