Śawt

Śawt ሠ is a letter of the Geʽez script, 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/		/ʃ/	שׂ‎	/s/	שׂ‎	/s/	ሠ	/ɬ/

See also

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