Ś
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/
- Indo-Aryan: voiceless postalveolar fricative or voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative
- Ladin language – word-initial
- 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:- Ś for Ś
- ś for ś