Voiceless alveolar sibilant

s
Pulmonic Consonant
IPA:	s
X-SAMPA:	s
Kirshenbaum:	s
Place of Articulation:	Alveolar
Manner of Articulation:	Fricative (Sibilant)
Phonological features:

The voiceless alveolar sibilant is a very common sound, occuring in many languages. Its voiced equivalent is z, and it is part of the affricate ts.

Labial-velar approximants in natlangs

English

Plain	s	sit /sɪt/
Voiced	s	dogs /dɒgs/ [dɒgz]

Japanese

Plain	さ, す, せ, そ (sa,su,se,so)	桜 (sakura) /sakura/
Retracted		手裏剣 (shuriken) /sjuriken/ [ʃɯɽikeɴ]

Latin

Plain

s

sol /sol/

Nahuatl

Voiced

z, c(i, e)

cihuātl /siwaːtɬ/