S with acute
Ś ś
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	[ʃ] [ɕ] [sj] [z] [ɬ]
In Unicode	U+015A, U+015B, U+017F + U+0301
History
Development	Σ σ ς ς 𐌔 S S s ſ Ś ś
Transliterations	С́ ش שׂ ሠ श
Other
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Ś (minuscule: ś or ſ́) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from S with the addition of an acute accent. It is used in Polish and Montenegrin alphabets, and in certain other languages or romanizations.^[1]

Uses

• Slavic languages – usually the palatalized form of /s/

• Polish language – [ɕ] (voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative)
• Montenegrin language – [ɕ]; Cyrillic letter: С́
• In the Belarusian Łacinka for сь /sʲ/
• In the Ukrainian Latynka for сь /sʲ/
• Lower Sorbian language – [ɕ]

• Indo-Aryan: [ʃ] voiceless postalveolar fricative or [ɕ] voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative

• Transliteration of Sanskrit and modern Indic languages: see the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration
• Romani alphabet

• Ladin language – word-initial [z] (in Anpezo dialect it represents [z] in all positions)
• In some dialects of the Emilian language – /z/
• transliteration of a palatalized s in the Lydian language
• In Proto-Semitic, a reconstructed voiceless lateral fricative phoneme /ɬ/, the parent phoneme of Ge'ez Śawt 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.
• a sibilant phoneme of the ancient Iberian language.

Encodings

The HTML codes are:

• Ś for Ś (upper case)
• ś for ś (lower case)

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