ʃ
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See also: ഽ [U 0D3D MALAYALAM SIGN AVAGRAHA], ʆ [U 0286 LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH CURL], ∫ [U 222B INTEGRAL], ſ [U 017F LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S], and Ʃ [U 01A9 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ESH]
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Character variations
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Translingual
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- The form varies between curvy: an 's' stretched vertically – and straight: a vertical line with a right hook at top and a left hook at bottom. The glyph in the box at right has an intermediate form.
Etymology
[edit]Introduced by Isaac Pitman in his 1847 Phonotypic Alphabet, based on the italic form of the long s (ſ).
Pronunciation
[edit]IPA: (file)
Symbol
[edit]ʃ
- (IPA) a voiceless palatoalveolar sibilant.
- Coordinate term: (voiced palatoalveolar fricative) ʒ
- (superscript ⟨ᶴ⟩, IPA) [ʃ]-fricated release of a plosive (e.g. [tᶴ], sometimes implying an affricate [t͜ʃ]); [ʃ]-coloring; or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [ʃ].
- (some Italian dictionaries) voiced alveolar fricative (/z/)
- Synonym: ṡ
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Voiceless postalveolar fricative on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Letter esh on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Xhosa
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Letter
[edit]ʃ (upper case Ʃ)
- Obsolete letter formerly used to represent the phoneme /ʃ/. Replaced by sh.