Graphemes for /ʃ/ and Related Phonemes

Post-alveolars

/ʃ/ - voiceless post-alveolar fricative

Writing System	Grapheme	Example	Notes
apd-Latn	<sh>	sharaab ‘drink’
ar-Arab	<ش>	مستشفى ‘hospital’
ast-Latn	<x>	xente ‘people’
bcy-Latn	<sh>	shemtə ‘tax’
de-Latn	<ch>	chance ‘chance’	Loan words
de-Latn	<sch>	Schaf ‘sheep’
de-Latn	<s>	sprach ‘say’	Before plosives t and p
dv-Thaa	<ޝ>	ޝާމް	A letter devised to transliterate Arabic ‹ش›. Occurs only in words of foreign origin.
en-Latn	<ce>	ocean
en-Latn	<ch>	machine
en-Latn	<ci>	social
en-Latn	<sh>	shell
en-Latn	<si>	discussion
en-Latn	<s>	sure
en-Latn	<ti>	patient
es-Latn	<sh>	flash ‘flashbulb’	Loan words only
es-Latn	<x>	Xela	Loan words from Mayan
fub-Arab	<ش>	شٜىٰدٜ ‘money’, عَشُّغٛ ‘to let’, حَشِّ ‘smells bad’, مِحٛوشِ ‘I took’
fub-Latn	<c>	ceede ‘money’, accugo ‘to let’, hacci ‘smells bad’, mi hooci ‘I took’	dialect variants in pronunciation
ha-Latn	<sh>	shuni ‘indigo dye’
id-Latn	<sy>	syarat ‘requirement’	Typically from Arabic
ne-Deva	<श>	बिदेशी ‘foreigner’
ne-Deva	<ष>	परिषद ‘council’	Sanskrit loanwords
png-Latn	<sh>	sha̱ru, bishuwa
xnz-Copt	<ϣ>
xnz-Latn	<sh>

Alveo-palatals

/ɕ/ - voiceless alveo-palatal fricative

Writing System	Grapheme	Example	Notes
ii-Latn	<x>	xix ‘which?’
ru-Cyrl	<жч>	мужчи́на ‘man’
ru-Cyrl	<сч>	счита́ть ‘count’
ru-Cyrl	<щ>	щека́ ‘cheek’	The consonant was previously geminate but is no longer.

Palatals

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