Ś

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

==Uses== Slavic languages – usually the palatalized form of /s/ Polish language – (voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative) Montenegrin language – [ɕ]; Cyrillic letter: С́ In the Belarusian Łacinka for сь In the Ukrainian Latynka for сь Lower Sorbian language – Indo-Aryan: voiceless postalveolar fricative or voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative Transliteration of Sanskrit and modern Indic languages: see the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration Romani alphabet Ladin language – word-initial [z] (in Anpezo dialect it represents [z] in all positions) In some dialects of the Emilian language – transliteration of a palatalized s in the Lydian language In Proto-Semitic, a reconstructed voiceless lateral fricative phoneme , 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. a sibilant phoneme of the ancient Iberian language.