Š
The grapheme Š, š (Latin S with háček) is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ].
The symbol originates with the 15th century Czech alphabet as introduced by the reforms of Jan Hus. From there, it was adopted into the Croatian alphabet by Ljudevit Gaj in 1830, and it also figures in the Slovenian and Bosnian alphabets. It is the romanisation of Cyrillic ш in ISO 9 and scientific transliteration as well as in Macedonian, Bulgarian and Serbian. In Slovak, it represents /ʂ/.
It is also used in Estonian language, Finnish language (only in loan words), Latvian language and Lithuanian language, also denoting /ʃ/.
It is used in transliteration of Ukrainian as the equivalent of ш.
The grapheme also transliterates cuneiform orthography of Sumerian and Akkadian /ʃ/ or /ʧ/, and (based on Akkadian orthography) the Hittite /s/ phoneme, as well as the /ʃ/ phoneme of Semitic languages, transliterating shin (Phoenician and its descendants), the direct predecessor of Cyrillic ш.
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Letter S with diacritics
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Letters using caron sign
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