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Ṣ
Ṣ (Lower case, minuscule: ṣ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from an S with the addition of a dot (diacritic), dot below the letter. Its uses include: * In the Alvarez/Hale orthography of the Oʼodham language, Tohono Oʼodham language to represent retroflex (Akimel O'odham and Saxton/Saxton use instead) * the transliteration of Languages of India, Indic languages to represent retroflex * the transcription of Afro-Asiatic languages (mostly Semitic languages) to represent an "emphatic consonant, emphatic s" as in Arabic ص (''Ṣād'') and as in the Hebrew צ (''Tzadi/Ṣādī'') spoken by the Jews of Yemen and North Africa * the orthography of Yoruba language, Yoruba in Nigeria to represent the voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant (the English language, English "sh" sound) In HTML these are Ṣ: Ṣ and ṣ: ṣ. The Unicode codepoints are U+1E62 for Ṣ and U+1E63 for ṣ in Latin Extended Additional range. See also *Tsade *Dot (diacritic) Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsade
Tsade (also spelled , , , , tzadi, sadhe, tzaddik) is the eighteenth Letter (alphabet), letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician alphabet, Phoenician ''ṣādē'' 𐤑, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew ''ṣādī'' , Aramaic alphabet, Aramaic ''ṣāḏē'' 𐡑, Syriac alphabet, Syriac ''ṣāḏē'' ܨ, Ge'ez script, Ge'ez ''ṣädäy'' ጸ, and Arabic alphabet, Arabic ''ṣād'' . It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪎, Ancient South Arabian script, South Arabian , and Geʽez script, Ge'ez . The corresponding letter of the Ugaritic alphabet is 𐎕 ''ṣade''. Its oldest phonetic value is debated, although there is a variety of pronunciations in different modern Semitic languages and their dialects. It represents the coalescence of three Proto-Semitic "emphatic consonants" in Canaanite language, Canaanite. Arabic language, Arabic, which kept the phonemes separate, introduced variants of and to express the three (see , ). In Aramaic, these emphatic consonants c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
