Ś Explained

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 (voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative)
  • Polish language
  • In the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet for сь
  • Proposed Montenegrin language
  • Lower Sorbian language
• Indo-Aryan: 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 .
• 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:

• &

1. 346; for Ś (upper case)

• &

1. 347; for ś (lower case)

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

See also

• Š
• sz (digraph)