Sh (digraph)

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Sh is a digraph of the Latin alphabet, a combination of S and H.

European languages

Albanian

In Albanian, sh represents [ʃ]. It is considered a distinct letter, named shë, and placed between S and T in the Albanian alphabet.

Breton

In Breton, sh represents [s]. It is not considered a distinct letter and it is a variety of zh (e. g. koshoc'h ("older"). It is not considered as a digraph in compound words, such as kroashent ("roundabout": kroaz ("cross") + hent ("way", "ford").

English

In

American Literary braille includes a single-cell contraction for the digraph with the dot pattern (1 4 6). In isolation it stands for the word "shall".

In

In Irish, ⟨sh⟩ represents [h] and marks the lenition of ⟨s⟩; for example mo shaol [mˠə hiːlˠ] "my life" (cf. saol [sˠiːlˠ] "life").

Ladino

In

Occitan

In

For s·h, see Interpunct#Occitan.

Spanish

In Spanish, sh represents [ʃ] almost only in foreign origin words, as flash, show, shuara or geisha. Royal Spanish Academy 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].^[1]

Other languages

Somali

Sh represents the sound [ʃ] in the Somali Latin Alphabet.^[2] It is considered a separate letter, and is the 9th letter of the alphabet.

Uyghur

Sh represents the sound [ʃ] in the Uyghur Latin script. It is considered a separate letter, and is the 14th letter of the alphabet.

Uzbek

In Uzbek, the letter sh represents [ʃ]. It is the 27th letter of the Uzbek alphabet.

Finnish and Estonian

In Finnish and Estonian, sh is used in place of š to represent [ʃ] when the accented character is unavailable.

Romanization

In the

In the Hepburn romanization of Japanese, sh represents [ɕ]. Other romanizations write [ɕ] as s before i and sy before other vowels.

International auxiliary languages

Ido

In