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Main sound category: Fricatives
Sound category: voiceless postalveolar fricative
IPA symbol: ʃ
IPA description: voiceless postalveolar fricative
UPSID symbol: S
UPSID description: voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant fricative
Occurs in 215 languages
That is in 43.70% of all languages
Occurs in: !Xu Aari Abishira Achumawi Acoma Aizi Alamblak Albanian Aleut Alladian Amharic Amo Amuesha Amuzgo Angas Arabela Arabic Arabic_Modern Standard Arabic Archi Armenian Avar Awiya Axluxlay Azerbaijani Bakairi Bambara Bashkir Basque Bats Beja Bengali_Bangladesh Bengali_Calcutta Berta Breton Bribri Bulgarian Burmese Burushaski Caddo Campa Camsa Catalan (Central) Cayapa Cayuvava Cham Chatino Cherokee Chipewyan Chuvash Cofan Dagbani Dagur Dahalo Daju Dakota Dangaleat Dari Dizi English English_American English_Australian Eyak Farsi Finnish French Fur Ga Georgian German Guajiro Guambiano Hadza Hamer Hausa Hebrew Hindi-urdu Hixkaryana Hmong Huari Huasteco Hungarian Iai Inuit Iranxe Iraqw Irish Italian Italian_UPSID Jacaltec Japreria Jaqaru Jebero Jingpho Jivaro K'ekchi Kabardian Kaingang Kanakuru Kanuri Karen Karok Kawaiisu Kefa Khalkha Khanty Khasi Kirghiz Koma Komi Kotoko Kpan Kullo Kunama Kurdish Kwoma Lahu Lak Lithuanian Luiseno Lungchow Luo Lushootseed Maasai Maba Manchu Margi Mari Mazahua Mixe Mixtec Moghol Monguor Moxo Muinane Mumuye Mursi Nahuatl Navajo Neo-aramaic NepaliOH Nera Ngizim Noni Norwegian Norwegian_Elverum Norwegian_Malm Norwegian_Oslo Norwegian_Sandnessjøen Norwegian_Stavanger Norwegian_Tromsø Norwegian_Trondheim Nubian Ocaina Ojibwa Ormuri Pacoh Paez Parauk Pashto Paya Persian Phlong Po-ai Polish Pomo Portuguese (Brasilian) Quechua Quileute Resigaro Romanian Rutul Saami Sango Sedang Selkup Shilha Shiriana Shuswap Sierra miwok Sinhalese Siriono Socotri Somali Sui Swahili Tabi Tacana Taishan Tamasheq Tarascan Tarok Tehuelche Tigre Tigrinya Tlapanec Totonac Trumai Tseshaht Tulu Tunica Turkish Tuva Ukrainian Upper chehalis Urdu_Pakistan Uzbek Wapishana Wappo Wiyot Yakut Yoruba Yucatec Yuchi Zulu Zuni