Sat (letter)

For other uses, see SAT.

Śat (ሰ) is a letter of the Geʽez script.[1][2] It is descended from South Arabian 𐩪. It represents both a historical "s" /s/ (a voiceless alveolar fricative), like the s in sink and "ṯ" /θ/ (a voiceless dental fricative), like the th in think.

It has the unicode designation U+1230 Ethiopic Syllable Sa.[3]

References

  1. ^ Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. p. 573. ISBN 978-0-19-507993-7. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
  2. ^ Lipiński, Edward (2001). Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar. Peeters Publishers. p. 95. ISBN 978-90-429-0815-4. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
  3. ^ "U+1230 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE SA: ሰ – Unicode". Codepoints.net. Retrieved 2025-08-26.

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