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ś U+015B, ś
LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
Composition:s [U+0073] + ◌́ [U+0301]
Ś
Latin Extended-A Ŝ

Translingual

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Letter

ś (upper case Ś)

  1. (NAPA) a voiceless alveopalatal fricative (IPA ).
  2. (UPA) a palatalized s sound (IPA ).
  3. (IAST, international standards) transliterates Sanskrit (or equivalent).
  4. (SPA) represents voiceless alveopalatal fricative (IPA ).
  5. A transliteration of a palatalized s in the Lydian language
  6. In Proto-Semitic, a reconstructed voiceless lateral fricative phoneme, the parent phoneme of Ge'ez Śawt ().
  7. A sibilant phoneme of the earliest phase of the Sumerian language.
  8. A transliteration of a letter of the Etruscan alphabet, related to San and Tsade.

Belarusian

Pronunciation

Letter

ś (upper case Ś)

  1. A letter of the Belarusian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Letter

ś (upper case Ś)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Lower Sorbian alphabet, called śej and written in the Latin script.

See also

(Latin-script letters) pismik; A a, B b, C c, Č č, Ć ć, D d, E e, Ě ě, F f, G g, H h, Ch ch, I i, J j, K k, Ł ł, L l, M m, N n, Ń ń, O o (Ó ó), P p, R r, Ŕ ŕ, S s, Š š, Ś ś, T t, U u, W w, Y y, Z z, Ž ž, Ź ź

Polish

Etymology

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and ś for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

Letter

ś (upper case Ś, lower case)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Polish alphabet, called si and written in the Latin script.

See also

Romani

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (International Standard) /ʃ/, (Pan-Vlax) /ɕ/

Letter

ś (lower case, upper case Ś)

  1. (International Standard) The twenty-fifth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
    Synonym: (Pan-Vlax) š
  2. (Pan-Vlax) Used to respresent a dialectal pronunciation of čh.
    Synonym: (International Standard) ćh

See also

References

  • Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “Ś, ś”, in ニューエクスプレス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 14

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

Letter

ś (upper case Ś)

  1. (Montenegro) A letter of the Serbo-Croatian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Silesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɕ/
  • Syllabification: ś

Etymology 1

The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and ś for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

ś (lower case, upper case Ś)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
See also

Etymology 2

Preposition

ś

  1. Alternative form of z

Ukrainian

Pronunciation

Letter

ś (upper case Ś)

  1. A letter of the Ukrainian alphabet, written in the Latin script.