Š

Š in upper- and lowercase

The grapheme Š, š (Latin S with caron) is used in various contexts:

• In Slavic languages: it is the 25th letter of the Croatian and Bosnian and 20th letter of the Slovenian alphabet, and is also used in the Czech language, Slovak language and Slovenian language, where it represents(IPA) /ʃ/. The character is also in the Latinic form of Serbian in 25th place, and in Macedonian in 26th. In Slovak, it represents /ʂ/. It is also used in some of the transliteration systems of Bulgarian. Like its Latin counterpart, the Cyrillic alphabet has a specific symbol: Ш. It generally denotes an unvoiced fricative similar to English "sh".

• It is also used in Estonian language, Finnish language (only in loan words), Latvian language and Lithuanian language, also denoting /ʃ/.

• 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 later Semitic languages.