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Shin (also spelled Šin (') or Sheen) literally means "teeth", "press", and "sharp"; It is the twenty-first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Shin 12px, Hebrew Shin , Aramaic Shin 10 px, Syriac Shin (unicode:ܫ), and Arabic Shin (in abjadi order, 13th in modern order). Its sound value is a voiceless sibilant, or . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Sigma () (which in turn gave Latin ラテン語:S and Cyrillic С), and the letter ''Sha'' in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts (, ). The South Arabian and Ethiopian letter ''Śawt'' is also cognate. ==Origins== The Proto-Sinaitic glyph, according to William Albright, was based on a "Tooth" and with the phonemic value (unicode:š) "corresponds etymologically (in part, at least) to original Semitic ''(unicode:ṯ)'' (th), which was pronounced ''s'' in South Canaanite".〔Albright, 1948: 15〕 The Phoenician letter expressed the continuants of two Proto-Semitic phonemes, and may have been based on a pictogram of a tooth (in modern Hebrew ''shen''). The Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1972, records that it originally represented a composite bow. The history of the letters expressing sibilants in the various Semitic alphabets is somewhat complicated, due to different mergers between Proto-Semitic phonemes. As usually reconstructed, there are five Proto-Semitic phonemes that evolved into various voiceless sibilants in daughter languages, as follows: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shin (letter)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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