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{{short description|Latin letter S with caron}}
'''Š''' is the 25th letter of the [[Croatian alphabet|Croatian]] and [[Serbian alphabet|Serbian]] and 20th letter of the [[Slovenian alphabet]]. It is formed by addition of an [[caron]] to the standard [[S]] letter used in most alphabets based on [[Latin script]].
{{Distinguish|text = the Sámi youth magazine [[Š (magazine)|Š]] or the Esperanto letter [[Ŝ]]}}
{{Infobox grapheme
|name=Eš
|letter=Š š
|script=[[Latin script]]
|type=[[Alphabet]]
|typedesc=ic
|fam1=<hiero>Aa32</hiero><hiero>M40</hiero>|fam2=[[File:Shamash.svg|20px|Proto-Sinaitic Shin]]|fam3=[[File:Proto-semiticS-01.svg|20px|Proto-Sinaitic Shin]]|fam4=[[File:Phoenician_sin.svg|20px|Phoenician Sin]]|fam5=[[File:Proto-Canaanite_-_shin.svg|20px|Proto-Caanite Shin]]|fam6=[[Sigma|Σ σ ς]]|fam7=[[ς]]|fam8=[[𐌔]]|fam9=[[S|S s]]|fam10= [[Ṡ|Ṡ ṡ]]
|language=[[Czech language]]
|phonemes=[{{IPA link|ʃ}}]<br>[{{IPA link|ʂ}}]
|unicode=U+0160, U+0161
|equivalents=[[Ш]]<br>[[Ⱎ]]<br>[[ש]]<br>[[ش]]<br>[[Armenian alphabet|շ]]
|direction=Left-to-Right
|image=Latin_letter_S_with_caron.svg}}
[[File:Latin alphabet Šš.svg|right|thumb|Š in upper- and lowercase, sans-serif and serif]]
The [[grapheme]] '''Š''', '''š''' ([[S]] with [[caron]]) is used in various contexts representing the '''''sh''''' sound like in the word ''show'', usually denoting the [[voiceless postalveolar fricative]] /ʃ/ or similar [[voiceless retroflex fricative]] /ʂ/. In the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] this sound is denoted with [[Esh (letter)|ʃ]] or [[ʂ]], but the lowercase š is used in the [[Americanist phonetic notation]], as well as in the [[Uralic Phonetic Alphabet]].
It represents the same sound as the [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] letter [[Ş]] and the [[Romanian alphabet|Romanian]] letter [[S-comma|Ș]] (S-comma), the Hebrew and Yiddish letter [[Shin (letter)|ש]], the Ge'ez (Ethiopic) letter ሠ, the Arabic letter ش, and the Armenian letter Շ(շ).


For use in computer systems, ''Š'' and ''š'' are at [[Unicode]] codepoints U+0160 and U+0161 (Alt 0138 and Alt 0154 for input), respectively. In HTML code, the [[Character entity reference|entities]] <code>&amp;Scaron;</code> and <code>&amp;scaron;</code> can also be used to represent the characters.
{{Latin alphabet}}

[[Category:Uncommon Latin letters|S]]
==Primary usage==
The symbol originates with the 15th-century [[Czech alphabet]] that was introduced by the reforms of [[Jan Hus]].<ref name="Tošović">{{cite book |last1=Tošović |first1=Branko |title=Korrelative Grammatik des Bosni(aki)schen, Kroatischen und Serbischen: Dio 1. Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie |date=2010 |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster |isbn=978-3-6435-0100-4 |page=100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ai5HOHTKAzkC&pg=PA100 |language=German}}</ref>{{sfn|Kempgen|Kosta|Berger|Gutschmidt|2014|p=1518}} From there, it was first adopted into the [[Croatian alphabet]] by [[Ljudevit Gaj]] in 1830 to represent the same sound,{{sfn|Kempgen|Kosta|Berger|Gutschmidt|2014|p=1523}} and from there on into other orthographies, such as [[Latvian language|Latvian]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rūk̦e-Dravin̦a |first1=Velta |title=The Standardization Process in Latvian: 16th Century to the Present |date=1977 |publisher=Almqvist & Wiksell international |isbn=978-9-1220-0109-6 |page=56}}</ref> [[Lithuanian orthography|Lithuanian]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baldi |first1=Philip |last2=Dini |first2=Pietro U. |title=Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics: In Honor of William R. Schmalstieg |date=2004 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing |isbn=978-1-5881-1584-3 |page=199 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8jUb_6Ses7YC&pg=PA199}}</ref> [[Slovak alphabet|Slovak]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Krajčovič |first1=Rudolf |title=A historical phonology of the Slovak language |date=1975 |publisher=Winter |isbn=978-3-5330-2329-6 |page=17}}</ref> [[Slovene alphabet|Slovene]], [[Karelian alphabet|Karelian]], [[Sami orthography|Sami]], [[Veps language#Orthography|Veps]] and [[Sorbian alphabet|Sorbian]].

Some orthographies such as [[Bulgarian Cyrillic]], [[Macedonian Cyrillic]], and [[Serbian Cyrillic]] use the "[[Sha (Cyrillic)|ш]]" letter, which represents the sound that "š" would represent in Latin alphabets.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Daskalov |first1=Roumen |last2=Vezenkov |first2=Alexander |title=Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume Three:Shared Pasts, Disputed Legacies |date=2015 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-9-0042-9036-5 |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WDRzBwAAQBAJ&pg=PP7}}</ref> Moreover, [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]],<ref name="Tošović" /> [[Serbian language|Serbian]],<ref name=Rhem>{{cite book |last1=Rhem |first1=Georg |last2=Uszkoreit |first2=Hans |title=The Serbian Language in the Digital Age |date=2012 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-3-6423-0755-3 |page=53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E6aD30BIUowC&pg=PA53}}</ref> [[Croatian language|Croatian]], and [[Montenegrin language|Montenegrin]] standard languages adopted Gaj's Croatian alphabet alongside Cyrillic thereby adopting "š",<ref name=Greenberg>{{cite book |last1=Greenberg |first1=Robert D. |title=Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration |date=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-1992-5815-4 |page=103 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=suYTDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA103}}</ref> while the same alphabet is used for [[Romanization of Macedonian]]. Certain variants of [[Belarusian Latin alphabet|Belarusian Latin]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kamusella |first1=Tomasz |title=The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe |date=2008 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-2305-8347-4 |page=172 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JzkWDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA172}}</ref> and [[Romanization of Bulgarian|Bulgarian Latin]] also use the letter.

In [[Finnish alphabet|Finnish]] and [[Estonian alphabet|Estonian]], ''š'' occurs only in loanwords.<ref>[http://www.mlang.name/arkisto/hatut-EN.html Finnish orthography and the characters š and ž]</ref>

[[Polish language|Polish]] and [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] do not use ''š''. Polish uses the digraph ''sz''. Hungarian uses the basic Latin letter ''s'' and uses the digraph ''sz'' as equivalent to most other languages that use ''s''.

Outside [[Europe]], [[Syriac alphabet#Latin alphabet and romanization|Syriac Latin]]<ref>{{cite journal |title=A Cuneiform Correspondence to Alphabetic ש in West Semitic Names of the I Millennium B.C |journal=Orientalia |date=1978 |volume=7 |issue=1 |page=91 |publisher=Gregorian Biblical Press |issn=0030-5367}}</ref> adopted the letter but it, alongside other letters with diacritics, is rarely used. The alphabet is not used natively to write the language for which the [[Syriac alphabet]] is used instead.

The letter is also used in [[Lakota language|Lakota]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Andersson |first1=Rani-Henrik |title=The Lakota Ghost Dance Of 1890 |date=2020 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-1-4962-1107-1 |page=402 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h3_aDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT402}}</ref> [[Cheyenne language|Cheyenne]], [[Miami|Myaamia]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Costa |first1=David |title=The Miami-Illinois Language |date=1990 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press}}</ref> and [[Cree language|Cree]] (in dialects such as [[Moose Cree language|Moose Cree]]),<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pentland |first1=David H. |title=Papers of the Thirtieth Algonquian Conference |journal=Anthropological Linguistics |date=2004 |volume=46 |issue=1 |issn=0003-5483}}</ref> [[Classical Malay]] (until end of 19th century) and some African languages such as [[Northern Sotho language|Northern Sotho]] and [[Songhay languages|Songhay]]. It is used in the [[Persian language|Persian]] Latin (Rumi) alphabet, equivalent to [[ش]].

==Transliteration==
The symbol is also used as the romanization of Cyrillic [[ш]] in [[ISO 9]] and [[Scientific transliteration of Cyrillic|scientific transliteration]] and deployed in the Latinic writing systems of [[Romanisation of Macedonian|Macedonian]], [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], [[Serbian language|Serbian]], [[Łacinka alphabet|Belarusian]], [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]], and [[Bashkir language|Bashkir]]. It is also used in some systems of transliterating [[Georgian language|Georgian]] to represent {{angle brackets|შ}} ({{IPAslink|ʃ}}).

In addition, the grapheme transliterates [[Cuneiform script|cuneiform]] orthography of [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] and [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] {{IPAslink|ʃ}} or {{IPAslink|t͡ʃ}}, and (based on Akkadian orthography) the [[Hittite language|Hittite]] {{IPAslink|s}} phoneme, as well as the {{IPAslink|ʃ}} phoneme of [[Semitic languages]], transliterating [[shin (letter)|shin]] (Phoenician [[File:Phoenician sin.svg|16px]] and its descendants), the direct predecessor of Cyrillic [[ш]].

== Computing code ==
{{charmap
|0160|name1=LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
|0161|name2=LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
}}

==See also==
*[[Sha (Cyrillic)|Ш, ш – Sha (Cyrillic)]]
*[[Sz (digraph)]]
*[[Ś]]
*[[Esh (letter)|ʃ – Esh (letter)]]
*[[Caron]]
*[[Shin (letter)]]
*[[Voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant]]
*[[Ș]]
*[[Ş]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

===Sources===
* {{cite book |last1=Kempgen |first1=Sebastian |last2=Kosta |first2=Peter |last3=Berger |first3=Tilman |last4=Gutschmidt |first4=Karl |title=Die slavischen Sprachen / The Slavic Languages. Halbband 2 |date=2014 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-1102-1547-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GACTBgAAQBAJ }}

{{Latin script}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:S Caron}}
[[Category:Latin letters with diacritics]]
[[Category:Phonetic transcription symbols]]
[[Category:Lithuanian language]]
[[Category:Croatian language]]
[[Category:Serbian language]]
[[Category:Eastern Aramaic languages]]
[[Category:Neo-Aramaic languages]]

Latest revision as of 09:01, 14 June 2024

Š š
Usage
Writing systemLatin script
TypeAlphabetic
Language of originCzech language
Sound values[ʃ]
[ʂ]
In UnicodeU+0160, U+0161
History
Development
TransliterationsШ

ש
ش
շ
Other
Writing directionLeft-to-Right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.
Š in upper- and lowercase, sans-serif and serif

The grapheme Š, š (S with caron) is used in various contexts representing the sh sound like in the word show, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ or similar voiceless retroflex fricative /ʂ/. In the International Phonetic Alphabet this sound is denoted with ʃ or ʂ, but the lowercase š is used in the Americanist phonetic notation, as well as in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. It represents the same sound as the Turkic letter Ş and the Romanian letter Ș (S-comma), the Hebrew and Yiddish letter ש, the Ge'ez (Ethiopic) letter ሠ, the Arabic letter ش, and the Armenian letter Շ(շ).

For use in computer systems, Š and š are at Unicode codepoints U+0160 and U+0161 (Alt 0138 and Alt 0154 for input), respectively. In HTML code, the entities &Scaron; and &scaron; can also be used to represent the characters.

Primary usage

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The symbol originates with the 15th-century Czech alphabet that was introduced by the reforms of Jan Hus.[1][2] From there, it was first adopted into the Croatian alphabet by Ljudevit Gaj in 1830 to represent the same sound,[3] and from there on into other orthographies, such as Latvian,[4] Lithuanian,[5] Slovak,[6] Slovene, Karelian, Sami, Veps and Sorbian.

Some orthographies such as Bulgarian Cyrillic, Macedonian Cyrillic, and Serbian Cyrillic use the "ш" letter, which represents the sound that "š" would represent in Latin alphabets.[7] Moreover, Bosnian,[1] Serbian,[8] Croatian, and Montenegrin standard languages adopted Gaj's Croatian alphabet alongside Cyrillic thereby adopting "š",[9] while the same alphabet is used for Romanization of Macedonian. Certain variants of Belarusian Latin[10] and Bulgarian Latin also use the letter.

In Finnish and Estonian, š occurs only in loanwords.[11]

Polish and Hungarian do not use š. Polish uses the digraph sz. Hungarian uses the basic Latin letter s and uses the digraph sz as equivalent to most other languages that use s.

Outside Europe, Syriac Latin[12] adopted the letter but it, alongside other letters with diacritics, is rarely used. The alphabet is not used natively to write the language for which the Syriac alphabet is used instead.

The letter is also used in Lakota,[13] Cheyenne, Myaamia[14] and Cree (in dialects such as Moose Cree),[15] Classical Malay (until end of 19th century) and some African languages such as Northern Sotho and Songhay. It is used in the Persian Latin (Rumi) alphabet, equivalent to ش.

Transliteration

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The symbol is also used as the romanization of Cyrillic ш in ISO 9 and scientific transliteration and deployed in the Latinic writing systems of Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Bashkir. It is also used in some systems of transliterating Georgian to represent ⟨შ⟩ (/ʃ/).

In addition, the grapheme transliterates cuneiform orthography of Sumerian and Akkadian /ʃ/ or /t͡ʃ/, 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.

Computing code

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Character information
Preview Š š
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 352 U+0160 353 U+0161
UTF-8 197 160 C5 A0 197 161 C5 A1
Numeric character reference &#352; &#x160; &#353; &#x161;
Named character reference &Scaron; &scaron;

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Tošović, Branko (2010). Korrelative Grammatik des Bosni(aki)schen, Kroatischen und Serbischen: Dio 1. Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie (in German). LIT Verlag Münster. p. 100. ISBN 978-3-6435-0100-4.
  2. ^ Kempgen et al. 2014, p. 1518.
  3. ^ Kempgen et al. 2014, p. 1523.
  4. ^ Rūk̦e-Dravin̦a, Velta (1977). The Standardization Process in Latvian: 16th Century to the Present. Almqvist & Wiksell international. p. 56. ISBN 978-9-1220-0109-6.
  5. ^ Baldi, Philip; Dini, Pietro U. (2004). Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics: In Honor of William R. Schmalstieg. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-5881-1584-3.
  6. ^ Krajčovič, Rudolf (1975). A historical phonology of the Slovak language. Winter. p. 17. ISBN 978-3-5330-2329-6.
  7. ^ Daskalov, Roumen; Vezenkov, Alexander (2015). Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume Three:Shared Pasts, Disputed Legacies. BRILL. p. 7. ISBN 978-9-0042-9036-5.
  8. ^ Rhem, Georg; Uszkoreit, Hans (2012). The Serbian Language in the Digital Age. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 53. ISBN 978-3-6423-0755-3.
  9. ^ Greenberg, Robert D. (2004). Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration. Oxford University Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-1992-5815-4.
  10. ^ Kamusella, Tomasz (2008). The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe. Springer. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-2305-8347-4.
  11. ^ Finnish orthography and the characters š and ž
  12. ^ "A Cuneiform Correspondence to Alphabetic ש in West Semitic Names of the I Millennium B.C". Orientalia. 7 (1). Gregorian Biblical Press: 91. 1978. ISSN 0030-5367.
  13. ^ Andersson, Rani-Henrik (2020). The Lakota Ghost Dance Of 1890. University of Nebraska Press. p. 402. ISBN 978-1-4962-1107-1.
  14. ^ Costa, David (1990). The Miami-Illinois Language. University of Nebraska Press.
  15. ^ Pentland, David H. (2004). "Papers of the Thirtieth Algonquian Conference". Anthropological Linguistics. 46 (1). ISSN 0003-5483.

Sources

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