Esh (letter)

Esh (majuscule: Ʃ, minuscule: ʃ; Unicode U+01A9, U+0283) is a character used in conjunction with the Latin alphabet, introduced by Isaac Pitman in his 1847 Phonotypic Alphabet to represent the voiceless postalveolar fricative (English sh), and is today used in the International Phonetic Alphabet as well as in the alphabets of some African languages.

Its lowercase form ʃ is similar to an italic long s ſ or an integral sign ∫; its uppercase form Ʃ is based on the Greek letter sigma.

[edit] Other languages

The consonant ʃ is spelt like this:

• ش in Arabic
• շ in Armenian
• ss in Auvergnat
• x in Catalan, Galician, Maltese
• š in Czech , Slovakian , Serbian , Croatian , Slovenian
• श in the Devanāgarī script
• sj in Danish, Dutch and Norwegian
• sh in English, Albanian
• ŝ in Esperanto
• ch in French
• შ in Georgian
• sch in German , and the s in front of t or p.
• שׁ in Hebrew
• s in Hungarian
• s (in front of e or i, or following i) in Irish and Scottish Gaelic
• sc in Old English, or in Italian when followed by e or i
• sz in Polish
• x or ch en Portuguese
• tj or kj in Swedish
• ş in Turkish
• ș in Romanian
• ш in Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.

[edit] See also

• Long s

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