Śawt

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/ š/ʃ/ שׂ/s/ שׂ/s/ ሠ/ɬ/

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References

  1. ↑ Bausi, Alessandro (2016). "AETHIOPICA" (PDF). Instituto de Estudios del Antiguo Egipto. p. 36. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
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