<span lang="ar" dir="rtl">Ś</span> (minuscule: ś or ſ́) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from S with the addition of an acute accent. It is used in Silesian, Polish, and Montenegrin alphabets, and in certain other languages or romanizations.
Uses
- Slavic languages – usually the palatalized form of /s/
:* Polish language – (voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative)
:* Montenegrin language – [ɕ]; Cyrillic letter: С́
:* In the Belarusian Łacinka for сь
:* In the Ukrainian Latynka for сь
:* Lower Sorbian language –
- Indo-Aryan: voiceless postalveolar fricative or voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative
:* Transliteration of Sanskrit and modern Indic languages: see the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration
:* Romani alphabet
- Ladin language – word-initial [z] (in Anpezo dialect it represents [z] in all positions)
- In some dialects of the Emilian language –
- transliteration of a palatalized s in the Lydian language
- In Proto-Semitic, a reconstructed voiceless lateral fricative phoneme , 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.
- a sibilant phoneme of the ancient Iberian language.
Encodings
The HTML codes are:
- &#346; for Ś (upper case)
- &#347; for ś (lower case)
The Unicode codepoints are U+015A for Ś and U+015B for ś.
See also
- С́
- Cz (digraph)
- Ź