Ś
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 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/
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- 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]
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- 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.
