Phoneme: sh
IPA: [ʃ]
sh [ʃ]: voiceless post-alveolar fricative
Word: shishish [ʃɪʃɪʃ] “it stung me"
Description: The voiceless post-alveolar fricative sh [ʃ] is in stem initial position preceded by the first-person, singular form shi [ʃɪ] in the ø-conjugation. It is also in word-initial and word final position. Note the difference in duration between the sound in the prefix complex (shi [ʃɪ]) versus the stem -shish [ʃiʃ].
