Ś

Ś (minuscule: ś) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from S with the addition of an acute accent. It is used in Polish and Montenegrin alphabet, and in certain other languages:

• Slavic languages - usually the palatalized form of /s/

• Polish language - [ɕ] (voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative)
• Montenegrin language - along with the digraph "sj"
• In the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet for сь /sʲ/
• Lower Sorbian language - [ɕ]

• Indo-Aryan: [ʃ] voiceless postalveolar fricative

• Transliteration of Sanskrit and modern Indic languages - see IAST
• Romany alphabet

• transliteration of a palatalized s in the Lydian language
• In Proto-Semitic, a reconstructed voiceless lateral fricative phoneme /ɬ/, the parent phoneme of Ge'ez Śawt ሠ.
• a sibilant phoneme of the earliest phase of the Sumerian language.
• transliteration of a letter of the Etruscan alphabet, related to San and Tsade.

Encodings

The HTML codes are:

• Ś for Ś (upper case)
• ś for ś (lower case)

The Unicode codepoints are U+015A for Ś and U+015B for ś.

See also

• С́
• Š
• sz (digraph)
• Ź