Tsade

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title: Tsade
text: Tsade is the eighteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ṣādē 𐤑, Hebrew ṣādī צ‎, Aramaic ṣāḏē 𐡑, Syriac ṣāḏē ܨ, Ge'ez ṣädäy ጸ, and Arabic ṣād ص‎. Its oldest phonetic value is debated, although there is a variety of pronunciations in different modern Semitic languages and their dialects. It represents the coalescence of three Proto-Semitic "emphatic consonants" in Canaanite. Arabic, which kept the phonemes separate, introduced variants of ṣād and ṭāʾ to express the three. In Ara
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description: Eighteenth letter of the Semitic scripts
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsade
date created: 2005-01-11T00:49:57Z
date modified: 2024-09-10T18:31:41Z
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