(Redirected from Æ©)'Esh' (
majuscule: ,
minuscule: ;
Unicode U+01A9, U+0283) 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 form is similar to an
italic long s ''Å¿'' or an
integral sign ∫, its
uppercase form is based on the
Greek letter
sigma.
See also
★
Long s
★
Å
External links
★
Practical Orthography of African Languages