S is the nineteenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet.
Semitic Šīn (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 "Sāmek" and not "Šīn". 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, French and German (in English rise; in French lisez, "read! (imperative pl.)"; in German lesen "to read").
An archaic alternative form of s, ?, called the long s or medial s, was used at the beginning or in the middle of the word; the modern form, the short or terminal s, was used at the end of the word. For example, "sinfulness" is rendered as "?infulne?s" using the long s. The use of the long s died out by the end of the 19th century, largely to prevent confusion with the minusculeMinuscule or lower case is the smaller form ( case) of letters (in the Roman alphabet: a b c . Originally alphabets were written entirely in majuscule (capital) letters which were spaced between well-defined upper and lower bounds. When written quickly wi fThe letter F is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet. History F developed from the digraph FH that stood for /f/. The Etruscans were the inventors of this digraph; F on its own stood for /w/ in Etruscan as in Greek (where the letter F,called Digamma in. The ligature of ?s became the German ess-tsett ( ß ).
Sierra represents the letter S in the NATO phonetic alphabetA different kind of phonetic alphabet is the International Phonetic Alphabet. The NATO phonetic alphabet is a common name for the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which assigned words to the letters. The letter s represents the voiceless alveolar fricativeThe voiceless alveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is s, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is s. The voiceless alveolar fricative occ in the International Phonetic AlphabetThis article is about the alphabet officially used in linguistics. The NATO phonetic alphabet ("alpha bravo") has been informally and nonstandardly called the International Phonetic Alphabet as well. The International Phonetic Alphabet is a phonetic alpha.
