Voiceless alveolar fricative

The voiceless alveolar fricative is a type of consonant. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨s⟩. The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by 's' in sun and sorry.

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 Examples 
 Language  Word  IPA Meaning Adyghe  /sė   'I' Arabic  Modern Standard  /ǧalasa   'to sit' Assyrian ܣܝܦܐ    'sword'  Bengali     'street' Burmese  စစားဗျီ/ca carr bhye   'I am eating now'  Chinese  Cantonese   /     'twinkle' Dutch  Belgian Standard      'to stand' Emilian and Romagnol      'salt' Estonian      'word'  English  sit    'sit' Esperanto     'Who hopes' Faroese      'sand' Georgian  /sami   'three'  Hebrew  /sefer   'book' Hindustani   /   'year' Japanese   /     'plural' Kabardian  /sė   'I'  Khmer   /     noun: 'Spain'adjective: 'Spanish' Korean   /     'island'  Malay      'one'  Maltese      'hard'  Marathi    'snake'Nepali'Mount Everest' Odia     'equal' Occitan  Limousin      'bad' Persian   /     'apple' Portuguese      'I hunt' Punjabi  /sapp   'snake'  Spanish  Latin American      'jumper'  Canarian Andalusian Filipino Swahili      'Swahili' Sylheti  /oise   'done' Vietnamese      'far' Yi       'die'

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Category:Consonants