Esh (letter)

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Esh
Ʃ ʃ
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See below)
S in the forms of cursive writing
Usage
Writing systemLatin script
TypeAlphabetic and Logographic
Language of originLatin language
Phonetic usage[ʃ]
/ˈɛʃ/
Unicode codepointU+01A9, U+0283
History
Development
Time period1847 to present
DescendantsNone
Sisters

Disputed:

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Other
Other letters commonly used withs(x), sh, š
Writing directionLeft-to-Right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and  , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Esh (majuscule: Ʃ Unicode U+01A9, minuscule: ʃ Unicode U+0283) is a character used in phonology to represent the voiceless postalveolar fricative (English ⟨sh⟩, as in "ship").

Form, usage, and history

Its lowercase form ⟨ʃ⟩ is similar to an

which?] as well as in the International Phonetic Alphabet
.

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) uses U+0283 ʃ LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH to represent a voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant. Related obsolete IPA characters include U+01AA ƪ LATIN LETTER REVERSED ESH LOOP, U+0285 ʅ LATIN SMALL LETTER SQUAT REVERSED ESH, and U+0286 ʆ LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH CURL.

U+AB4D LATIN SMALL LETTER BASELINE ESH is used in the Teuthonista phonetic transcription system.[1]

Variations of esh are used for other phonetic transcription:[2] , , ʃ.

U+1DF0B 𝼋 LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH DOUBLE BAR and U+1DF0C 𝼌 LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH DOUBLE BAR AND CURL are used as click letters.[3][4]

See also

  • ⟩ (integral symbol)
  • ſ⟩ (the archaic 'long s' letterform)
  • σ⟩ (the Greek letter 'sigma')
  • Ш⟩ (the Cyrillic letter 'sha')
  • Š⟩ (S with caron)
  • Ş⟩ (S-cedilla)
  • ⟩ (Praslesham)
  • Sz⟩ (a Polish digraph)
  • Sh⟩ (an English and Albanian digraph)
  • Latin-script S-based digraphs (including the Italian ⟨sc⟩, English ⟨sh⟩, and Norwegian and Faroese ⟨sk⟩)
  • Latin-script S-based trigraphs (including German ⟨sch⟩ and Italian ⟨sci⟩)

References

  1. ^ Everson, Michael; Dicklberger, Alois; Pentzlin, Karl; Wandl-Vogt, Eveline (2011-06-02). "L2/11-202: Revised proposal to encode "Teuthonista" phonetic characters in the UCS" (PDF).
  2. ^ Constable, Peter (2004-04-19). "L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS" (PDF).
  3. ^ Miller, Kirk; Sands, Bonny (2020-07-10). "L2/20-115R: Unicode request for additional phonetic click letters" (PDF).
  4. ^ Anderson, Deborah (2020-12-07). "L2/21-021: Reference doc numbers for L2/20-266R "Consolidated code chart of proposed phonetic characters" and IPA etc. code point and name changes" (PDF).
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