Š

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Š U+0160, Š
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
Composition:S [U+0053] + ◌̌ [U+030C]
ş
Latin Extended-A š
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Cheyenne

Pronunciation

Letter

Š (lower case š)

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

Czech

Letter

Š (lower case š)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Czech alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Estonian

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Letter

Š (upper case, lower case š)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called šaa and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Used only in foreign words.

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Finnish

Etymology

Common European letter for this sound, apparently first used in Czech; see Š on Wikipedia.

Letter

Š (upper case, lower case š)

  1. A letter of the Finnish alphabet, called hattu-s or suhu-s and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • In the Finnish alphabet, Š is a variant of S.
  • Used only in loanwords and transcribing foreign names.
  • Often spelled as s or sh, mainly due to technical restrictions (e.g. Š cannot be directly typed with the standard Finnish keyboard layout).

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Kalo Finnish Romani

Letter

Š (upper case, lower case š)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Kalo Finnish Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.[1]

Usage notes

Used only in the digraph .[1]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kimmo Granqvist (2011) “Aakkoset [Alphabet]”, in Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi [Consice grammar of Finnish Romani]‎ (in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten keskus, →ISBN, →ISSN, retrieved February 6, 2022, pages 1-2

Lakota

Pronunciation

Letter

Š (lower case š)

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

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Latvian

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Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

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Letter

Š

Š (upper case, lower case š)

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

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Lithuanian

Letter

Š (upper case, lower case š)

  1. 25th letter of the Lithuanian alphabet

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Letter

Š (lower case š)

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

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Romani

Pronunciation

Letter

Š (upper case, lower case š)

  1. (Pan-Vlax) The twenty-sixth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
    Synonym: (International Standard) Ś

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Serbo-Croatian

Letter

Š (upper case, lower case š, Cyrillic spelling Ш)

  1. 25th letter of the Serbo-Croatian alphabet

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

Letter

Š (lower case š)

  1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Slovak

Pronunciation

Letter

Š (lower case š)

  1. The thirty-fifth letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Further reading

  • Š”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Slovene

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Letter

Š (capital, lowercase š)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. The twenty-seventh letter of the Slovene alphabet (Resian), written in the Latin script.
  3. The twenty-first letter of the Slovene alphabet (Natisone Valley dialect), written in the Latin script.