View source for Voiceless alveolar sibilant

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!style="background:#CCCCFF;" colspan=2| <big>s</big>
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|colspan=2 align="center"| Pulmonic Consonant
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| [[IPA]]: || s
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| [[X-SAMPA]]: || <tt>s</tt>
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| [[Kirshenbaum]]: || s
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| Place of Articulation: || [[Alveolar]]
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| Manner of Articulation: || [[Fricative]] ([[Sibilant]])
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| [[Phonological feature]]s: || 
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The voiceless alveolar sibilant is a very common sound, occuring in many languages. Its voiced equivalent is [[Voiced alveolar sibilant|z]], and it is part of the affricate [[Voiceless alveolar affricate|ts]].

===Labial-velar approximants in natlangs===
'''[[English]]'''
{|
| Plain || s || sit /sɪt/
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| Voiced || s || dogs /dɒgs/ [dɒgz]
|}

'''[[Japanese]]'''
{|
| Plain || さ, す, せ, そ (sa,su,se,so) || 桜 (sakura) /sakura/
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| Retracted || し (shi) || 手裏剣 (shuriken) /sjuriken/ [ʃɯɽikeɴ] <!-- is this accurate? -->
|}

'''[[Latin]]'''
{|
| Plain || s || sol /sol/
|}

'''[[Nahuatl]]'''
{|
| Voiced || z, c(i, e) || cihuātl /siwaːtɬ/
|}

[[Category:Phonetic segments]]