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{{character
|name=san, sade
|sortform=21
|phoneme=ś, s
|checklevel=1
|problem=phoneme
}}

The variant {{c||Ś}} is the standard form of San in Raetic; {{c||Ś2}}, typical for the Lugano corpus (see {{bib|Lexicon Leponticum}}: [http://www.univie.ac.at/lexlep/wiki/%C5%9A Ś]), occurs only once in the epigraphically peculiar [[index::PU-1]]. {{c||Ś3}} is never securely attested as a letter, but only as part of a factory mark in [[index::Bostel]]. Its attestation in a [[index::SR-9|language-encoding inscription]] is highly dubious. Inverted forms are not attested.

San is generally assumed to write a marked sibilant ([ʃ] vel sim.), as it does in the Venetic writing tradition (see [[index::Script]]); hence the transliteration with ''ś''. The inscriptions from [[index::San Giorgio di Valpolicella]] may represent an exception: San occurs three times, [[index::S|Sigma]] never; San might be argued to write {{p||s}} in [[index::VR-14]]. See also [[index::Z]] for evidence of the influence of Etruscan writing in the area of Verona.