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In the thirteenth century, the phonetic difference between z and s was lost at the beginning and end of words in all dialects except for Gottscheerish. [27] Word-internally, Old and Middle High German s came to be pronounced [z] (the voiced alveolar sibilant), while Old and Middle High German z continued to be pronounced [s].
In French and most dialects of Portuguese, the four alveolar sibilants have merged into non-retracted [s] and [z], while in European Portuguese, most other Old World Portuguese variants and some recently European-influenced dialects of Brazil all instances of coda [s̺], voiced [z̺] before voiced consonants, were backed to [ʃ], while in most ...
casèrna [kaz̺ɛrno] 'barracks' See Occitan phonology: Languedocien: véser [bez̺e] 'to see' Piedmontese: amis [aˈmiz̠] 'friend' Apical. See Piemontese phonology: Portuguese: Coastal Northern European [example needed] Merges with non-retracted /z/. See Portuguese phonology: Inland Northern European [example needed] Apical. Contrasts with ...
Those superscript letters listed below are specifically provided for by the IPA Handbook; other uses can be illustrated with tˢ ([t] with fricative release), ᵗs ([s] with affricate onset), ⁿd (prenasalized [d]), bʱ ([b] with breathy voice), mˀ (glottalized [m]), sᶴ ([s] with a flavor of [ʃ], i.e. a voiceless alveolar retracted ...
The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet used to denote the sibilant sounds in these words are, respectively, [s] [z] [ʃ] [ʒ]. Sibilants have a characteristically intense sound, which accounts for their paralinguistic use in getting one's attention (e.g. calling someone using "psst!" or quieting someone using "shhhh!").
S with short stroke overlay Used for tau gallicum in Gaulish [10] S with diagonal stroke Used for Cupeño and Luiseño [30] Ꞅ ꞅ Insular S Variant of s [9] [3] Ƨ: Reversed S (Tone two) A letter used in the Zhuang language from 1957 to 1986 to indicate its second tone, cf. Cyrillic: Ꙅ ꙅ ꜱ Small capital S Medievalist addition [9 ...
S, or for lowercase, s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ess [ a ] (pronounced / ˈ ɛ s / ), plural esses .
The consonant inventory of Portuguese is fairly conservative. [citation needed] The medieval Galician-Portuguese system of seven sibilants (/ts dz/, /ʃ ʒ/, /tʃ/, and apicoalveolar /s̺ z̺/) is still distinguished in spelling (intervocalic c/ç z, x g/j, ch, ss -s-respectively), but is reduced to the four fricatives /s z ʃ ʒ/ by the merger of /tʃ/ into /ʃ/ and apicoalveolar /s̺ z̺ ...