Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adyghe | сэ | 'I' | |||
| Arabic | Modern Standard | جَلَسَ | 'to sit' | See Arabic phonology | |
| Armenian | Eastern | սար | 'mountain' | ||
| Basque | su | 'fire' | Apical. Contrasts with a laminal dental sibilant (/s̪̻/) | ||
| Burmese | ? | 'I am eating now' | |||
| Chinese | Cantonese | 閃 sim2 | 'twinkle' | See Cantonese phonology | |
| Mandarin | 三 sān | 'three' | See Mandarin phonology | ||
| Czech | svět | 'world' | See Czech phonology | ||
| Danish | sælge | 'sell' | See Danish phonology | ||
| Dutch | Standard | steen | 'stone' | See Dutch phonology | |
| Holland | zijn | 'to be' | In dialects that merge /s/ and /z/ into . | ||
| Friesland | Allophone of used word-initially and after voiceless consonants. | ||||
| English | sand | 'sand' | See English phonology | ||
| Faroese | sandur | 'sand' | |||
| Finnish | sinä | 'you (sg.)' | See Finnish phonology | ||
| French | façade | 'front' | See French phonology | ||
| Georgian | სამი | 'three' | |||
| German | Biss | 'bite' | See German phonology | ||
| Greek | Athens dialect | σαν san | 'as' | See Modern Greek phonology | |
| Hebrew | ספר | 'book' | See Modern Hebrew phonology | ||
| Hindi | साल | 'year' | See Hindi-Urdu phonology | ||
| Hungarian | sziget | 'island' | See Hungarian phonology | ||
| Italian | sali | 'you go up' | See Italian phonology | ||
| Japanese | 複数形 fukusūkē | 'plural' | See Japanese phonology | ||
| Kabardian | сэ | 'I' | |||
| Korean | 소 so | 'ox' | See Korean phonology | ||
| Macedonian | скока | 'jump' | See Macedonian phonology | ||
| Malay | satu | 'one' | |||
| Maltese | iebes | 'hard' | |||
| Marathi | सपाट | 'flat' | See Marathi phonology | ||
| Norwegian | sand | 'sand' | See Norwegian phonology | ||
| Occitan | Limousin | maichent | 'bad' | ||
| Polish | sum | 'catfish' | See Polish phonology | ||
| Persian | سیب/sib | 'apple' | See Persian phonology | ||
| Portuguese | caço | 'I hunt' | See Portuguese phonology | ||
| Romanian | surd | 'deaf' | See Romanian phonology. | ||
| Russian | волосы | 'hair' | Contrasts with palatalized form. See Russian phonology | ||
| Slovak | svet | 'world' | |||
| Spanish | Latin American | saltador | 'jumper' | See Spanish phonology and seseo | |
| Toda | kɔs̪ | 'money' | |||
| Turkish | su | 'water' | See Turkish phonology | ||
| Ukrainian | село | 'village' | See Ukrainian phonology | ||
| Urdu | سال | 'year' | See Hindi-Urdu phonology | ||
| Vietnamese | xa | 'far' | See Vietnamese phonology | ||
| West Frisian | sâlt | 'salt' | |||
| Yi | ꌦ sy | 'die' | |||
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