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Main sound category: Fricatives
Sound category: voiceless alveolar fricative
IPA symbol: s
IPA description: voiceless alveolar fricative
UPSID symbol: s
UPSID description: voiceless alveolar sibilant fricative
Occurs in 234 languages
That is in 47.56% of all languages
Occurs in: !Xu Aari Abau Abidji Abishira Achumawi Aghem Ahtna Ainu Aizi Akan Alabama Alamblak Alladian Amele Amo Amuesha Amuzgo Angas Ao Arabic_Modern Standard Arabic Asmat Azande Azerbaijani Baining Bambara Barasano Bariba Bashkir Beembe Bella coola Bengali_Bangladesh Bete Birom Bisa Bobo-fing Bodo Brahui Brao Breton Campa Camsa Cantonese Catalan (Central) Cayapa Cayuvava Chuave Dadibi Dahalo Daju Dan Danish Dari Diegueno Diola Dutch Efik Ejagham English English_American English_Australian Epena pedee Even Ewondo Farsi Fasu Fijian Finnish Fur Ga Georgian German Greek Guahibo Guambiano Guarani Gwari Hadza Hamer Hausa Hebrew Hixkaryana Hopi Hupa Iban Ik Indonesian Iraqw Irish Isoko Italian_UPSID Ivatan Iwam Jacaltec Jaqaru Jebero Jomang K'ekchi Kadugli Kala lagaw ya Kam Kanuri Karok Kashmiri Kera Kewa Kiowa Kirghiz Klamath Kohumono Kolokuma ijo Koma Konkani Konyagi Kotoko Kpan Kpelle Kunama Kven Kwaio Kwakw'ala Kwoma Lame Lelemi Lenakel Lithuanian Lua Lue Lugbara Luo Lushootseed Maasai Maba Maidu Mambila Mandarin Mapudungu Margi Mbum Moro Moxo Muinane Mumuye Mundari Nahuatl Nama Neo-aramaic Nepali NepaliOH Nez perce Ngizim Nivkh Norwegian Norwegian_Bergen Norwegian_Elverum Norwegian_Malm Norwegian_Oslo Norwegian_Sandnessjøen Norwegian_Stavanger Norwegian_Tromsø Norwegian_Trondheim Nubian Nyimang Ocaina Paez Pashto Persian Pohnpeian Polish Portuguese (Brasilian) Qawasqar Quileute Resigaro Rukai Sa'ban Saliba Sandawe Savosavo Selepet Serbian Sinhalese Siona Somali Songhai Southern nambiquara Spanish (Castilian) Sre Swahili Swedish Tabi Tagalog Tama Tamil Tampulma Teke Telugu Temein Temne Tera Tiddim chin Tigak Tigre Tigrinya Tiruray Tlapanec Tol Totonac Trumai Tseshaht Tsimshian Tulu Tunica Turkish Tzeltal Upper chehalis Urdu_Pakistan Usan Uzbek Vanimo Vietnamese Wapishana Warao Wintu Wolof Yagaria Yaqui Yareba Yawa Yessan-mayo Yoruba Yucatec Yucuna Zoque Zulu