Ṣ
Ṣ (minuscule: ṣ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from S with the addition of a dot below the letter. Its uses include:
- the transliteration of Indic languages to represent retroflex [ʂ],
- the transcription of Afro-Asiatic languages (mostly Semitic languages) to represent an "emphatic s" [sˀ] 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 in Nigeria to represent the voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant ("sh" sound).
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