Śawt
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Śawt ሠ is a letter of the Ge'ez abugida, descended from Epigraphic South Arabian 
, in Ge'ez representing ś. 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)
