š
See also: Appendix:Variations of "s"
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Translingual
Czech
Egyptian
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 380 page 313, 380.
Finnish
Letter
š (lower case, upper case Š)
Usage notes
- In the Finnish alphabet, š is a variant of s.
- Used only in loanwords and transcribing foreign names.
- Often written as s or sh.
Latvian
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
- IPA(key): [ʃ]
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