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The digraph/letter Sh is a digraph of the
. It is considered a separate letter, and is the 9th letter of the alphabet.
The digraph/letter Sh is a digraph of the Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the Ancient Rome, ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered except several letters splitting—i.e. from , and from � ...
, which is written as a combination of S and H.
European languages
Albanian
In Albanian, sh represents . It is considered a distinct letter, named shë, and placed between S and T in theAlbanian alphabet
The Albanian alphabet () is a variant of the Latin alphabet used to write the Albanian language. It consists of 36 letters representing all the phonemes of Standard Albanian:
The vowels are shown in bold.
The letters are named simply by their ...
.
Breton
In Breton, sh represents . It is not considered a distinct letter and it is a variety of zh (e. g. ("older"). It is not considered as a digraph in compound words, such as ''kroashent'' ("roundabout": ''kroaz'' ("cross") + ''hent'' ("way", "ford").English
In English, usually represents . The main exception is incompound word
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s, where the and are not a digraph, but pronounced separately, e.g. ''hogshead'' is ''hogs-head'' , not ''*hog-shead'' . ''Sh'' is not considered a distinct letter for collation
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purposes.
American Literary braille
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includes a single-cell contraction for the digraph with the dot pattern (1 4 6). In isolation it stands for the word "shall".
In Old English orthography, the sound was written . In Middle English
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it came to be written or ; the latter spelling has been adopted as the usual one in Modern English
Modern English, sometimes called New English (NE) or present-day English (PDE) as opposed to Middle and Old English, is the form of the English language that has been spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England
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.
Irish
In Irish, represents and marks thelenition
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of ; for example "my life" (cf. "life").
Ladino
InJudaeo-Spanish
Judaeo-Spanish or Judeo-Spanish (autonym , Hebrew script: ), also known as Ladino or Judezmo or Spaniolit, is a Romance language derived from Castilian Old Spanish.
Originally spoken in Spain, and then after the Edict of Expulsion spreading ...
, sh represents and occurs in both native words (, ‘under’) and foreign ones (''shalom'', ‘hello’). In the Hebrew script
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it is written ש.
Occitan
InOccitan Occitan may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania territory in parts of France, Italy, Monaco and Spain.
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania administrative region of France.
* Occitan language, spoken in parts o ...
, sh represents . It mostly occurs in the Gascon dialect of Occitan and corresponds with ''s'' or ''ss'' in other Occitan dialects: ''peish = peis'' "fish", ''naishença = naissença'' "birth", ''sheis = sièis'' "six". An ''i'' before ''sh'' is silent: ''peish, naishença'' are pronounced . Some words have ''sh'' in all Occitan dialects: they are Gascon words adopted in all the Occitan language (''Aush'' "Auch
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", ''Arcaishon'' " Arcachon") or foreign borrowings (''shampó'' "shampoo").
For s·h, see Interpunct#Occitan.
Spanish
In Spanish, sh represents almost only in foreign origin words, as ''flash'', ''show'', ''shuara'' or ''geisha''.Royal Spanish Academy
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recommends adapting in both spelling and pronunciation with s, adapting to common pronunciation in peninsular dialect. Nevertheless, in American dialects it is frequently pronounced t͡ʃ">Voiceless_postalveolar_affricate.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Voiceless postalveolar affricate">t͡ʃ
Other languages
Somali
Sh represents the sound in the Somali Latin Alphabet The Somali Latin alphabet is an official writing system in the Somalia, Federal Republic of Somalia and its constituent States and regions of Somalia, Federal Member States. It was developed by a number of leading scholars of Somali_language, So ...Uyghur
Sh represents the sound in the Uyghur Latin alphabet">Uyghur Latin script. It is considered a separate letter, and is the 14th letter of the alphabet.Uzbek
In Uzbek, the letter sh represents . It is the 27th letter of the Uzbek alphabet.Finnish and Estonian
In Finnish language, Finnish and Estonian language, Estonian, sh is used in place of Å¡ to represent [Romanization
In thePinyin
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, Wade-Giles, and Yale
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romanizations of Chinese, sh represents retroflex . It contrasts with , which is written x in Pinyin, hs in Wade-Giles, and sy in Yale.
In the Hepburn romanization
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of Japanese, sh represents . Other romanizations write as ''s'' before ''i'' and ''sy'' before other vowels.
International auxiliary languages
Ido
In Ido, sh represents .References
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