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| Semitic Šîn (bow) was pronounced as /S/ as the modern English digraph SH. In Greek, there was only one phoneme /s/ and no /S/, so Greek Σιγμα (Sigma) came to represent the Greek /s/ phoneme. The name Sigma probably comes from the Semitic letter Sâmek and not & |
Semitic Šîn (bow) was pronounced as /S/ as the modern English digraph SH. In Greek, there was only one phoneme /s/ and no /S/, so Greek Σιγμα (Sigma) came to represent the Greek /s/ phoneme. The name Sigma probably comes from the Semitic letter Sâmek and not Šîn. In Etruscan and Latin, the /s/ value was maintained, and only in Modern languages, S came to represent other sounds, like /S/ in Hungarian or /z/ in English and French (in English RISE and French LISER 'to read') | ||
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Semitic Šîn (bow) was pronounced as /S/ as the modern English digraph SH. In Greek, there was only one phoneme /s/ and no /S/, so Greek Σιγμα (Sigma) came to represent the Greek /s/ phoneme. The name Sigma probably comes from the Semitic letter Sâmek and not Šîn. In Etruscan and Latin, the /s/ value was maintained, and only in Modern languages, S came to represent other sounds, like /S/ in Hungarian or /z/ in English and French (in English RISE and French LISER 'to read')