Also known as S with acute
Ś (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.
Key facts
- Grapheme.name
- S with acute
- Grapheme.letter
- Ś ś
- Grapheme.image
- File:Latin letter S with acute above.svg
- Grapheme.imageclass
- skin-invert-image
- Grapheme.imagesize
- 200px
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.language
- Belarusian language (Latin), Lower Sorbian language, Polish language, Montenegrin language, Silesian language, Ukrainian language (Latin)
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+015A, U+015B, U+017F + U+0301
- Grapheme.fam1
- Aa32M40
- Grapheme.fam2
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Sinaitic Shin
- Grapheme.fam3
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Sinaitic Shin
- Grapheme.fam4
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Phoenician Sin
- Grapheme.fam5
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Caanite Shin
- Grapheme.fam6
- Σ σ ς
- Grapheme.fam7
- ς
- Grapheme.fam8
- 𐌔
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- Latin alphabet Śś.svg
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- Unicode character
- ś
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Ś (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.