summary german terms sibilant shibilant etc day asked anybody knew german terms sibilant shibilant category sound russian georgian etc linguists know effect ibilantshibilant polish sacute cacute zacute orthographically speaking examples peter daniels noted older german works semitology use special terms carsten breul reported sibilant schibilant also former zischlaut one wishes zisslaut languages human source linguist tells shibilant also rauschlaut although carsten tells appear widespread usage thinks sounds suitable zischlaut rauschlaut guess still problem remaining category names russian georgian knowledge english french german maybe collectively try come something languages alexis manaster ramer