Śawt

Śawt ሠ is a letter of the Ge'ez abugida, descended from Epigraphic South Arabian , but representing ś like ESA . It is reconstructed as descended from a Proto-Semitic voiceless lateral fricative *ś [ɬ]. 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

[edit] See also

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