Esh (letter)
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Esh (majuscule: Ʃ, minuscule: ʃ) is a character used in conjunction with the Latin alphabet, introduced by Isaac Pitman in his 1847 Phonotypic Alphabet to represent the voiceless postalveolar fricative (English sh), and is today used in the International Phonetic Alphabet as well as in the alphabets of some African languages.
Its lowercase is similar to an italic long s (ſ) or an integral sign (∫), while its uppercase is based on the Greek letter sigma.
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