Comparison of Afrikaans and Dutch rather than "Zuid-Afrika" as in Dutch, South Africa adopted "ZA" as its international vehicle registration code in 1936, which later became the country's ISO country code, with .za becoming the country's internet domain. In the middle of words, Afrikaans merged Dutch and to a single sound and consequently to a single spelling, . Compare Dutch "haven" (port) with Afrikaans "hawe", both pronounced . Afrikaans merged Dutch fricatives and to a single sound , spelt , except when preceded by , in which case (pronounced ) is used where Dutch uses (pronounced , or ; hence "school" is "school" in Dutch
Za (cuneiform) usage in the "vassal states" sub-corpus of the "Amarna letters". For the "Epic of Gilgamesh", the following usage is found in Tablets I-XII: "ṣa"-(79 times); "za"-(32); "ZA"-(15 times). --Cuneiform sign ZA Za (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign za is a common use sign in the Amarna letters and the "Epic of Gilgamesh." It is used syllabically for "ṣa", "za", and "ZA" (ZA as parts of personal names, places, or common words, etc.), and alphabetically for "ṣ" (s), "z", or "a". (All the 4 vowels, "a, e, i, o" are interchangeable.) In the 14th century BC Amarna letters, "za" is used in