Ś
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| Character | |
|---|---|
| Customary name: | san, sade |
| Represents: | ś, s |
Variants and attestation
| Transliteration | Sinistroverse | Dextroverse | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glyph | Number | Glyph | Number | |
| Ś | 
|
16 | 
|
6 |
| Ś2 | 
|
0 | 
|
1 |
| Ś3 | 
|
2 | 
|
4 |
is the standard form of San in Raetic; 
occurs only once in the epigraphically peculiar PU-1. 
is never securely attested as a letter, but only as part of a factory mark in Bostel. Its attestation in a language-encoding inscription is highly dubious. Inverted forms are not attested.
San is generally assumed to write the marked sibilant ś ([ʃ] vel sim.), as it does in the Venetic writing tradition (see Script). The inscriptions from San Giorgio di Valpolicella may represent an exception: San occurs three times, Sigma never; San might be argued to write s in VR-14. See also Z for evidence of the influence of Etruscan writing in the area of Verona.
