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Ś (minuscule: ś) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from S with the addition of an acute accent. It is used in Polish and Montenegrin alphabet, and in certain other languages:

  • Slavic languages - usually the palatalized form of /s/
  • Polish language - [ɕ] (voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative)
  • Montenegrin language - along with the digraph "sj"
  • In the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet for сь /sʲ/
  • Lower Sorbian language - [ɕ]
  • Indo-Aryan: [ʃ] voiceless postalveolar fricative
  • Transliteration of Sanskrit and modern Indic languages - see IAST
  • Romany alphabet
  • transliteration of a palatalized s in the Lydian language
  • In Proto-Semitic, a reconstructed voiceless lateral fricative phoneme /ɬ/, the parent phoneme of Ge'ez Śawt ሠ.
  • a sibilant phoneme of the earliest phase of the Sumerian language.
  • transliteration of a letter of the Etruscan alphabet, related to San and Tsade.
  • Encodings

    The HTML codes are:

  • Ś for Ś (upper case)
  • ś for ś (lower case)
  • The Unicode codepoints are U+015A for Ś and U+015B for ś.

    References

    Ś Wikipedia