Ś

Ś is an S with an acute accent. It is found in the Polish alphabet and it is used in some other countries:

*Slavic: usually IPA| [ɕ] (voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative)
**Polish language
**In the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet for сь IPA|/sʲ/
**Proposed Montenegrin language
**Lower Sorbian language
*Indo-Aryan: IPA| [ʃ] voiceless postalveolar fricative
**IAST
**Romany alphabet
*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 Unicode|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)

ee also

* Š
* sz (digraph)