Sh (digraph)

Sh is a digraph of the Latin alphabet, 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 the Albanian alphabet.

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 diphthong in compound words, such as ''kroashent'' ("roundabout": ''kroaz'' ("cross") + ''hent'' ("way", "ford").

English

In English, usually represents . The exception is in compound words, 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 purposes.

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 Old English orthography, the sound was written . In Middle English it came to be written or ; the latter spelling has been adopted as the usual one in Modern English.

Irish

In Irish ''sh'' is pronounced and represents the lenition of ; for example "my life" (cf. ''saol'' "life").

Ladino

In Judaeo-Spanish, sh represents and occurs in both native words (, ‘under’) and foreign ones (''shalom'', ‘hullo’). In the Hebrew script it is written ש.

Occitan

In Occitan, 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", ''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 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.html" ;"title="Voiceless_postalveolar_affricate.html" ;"title="nowiki/> t͡ʃ">Voiceless_postalveolar_affricate.html"_;"title="nowiki/>Voiceless_postalveolar_affricate">t͡ʃ

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Other languages

Somali

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Uyghur

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Uzbek

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

Romanization

In the Pinyin, Wade-Giles, and Yale romanization of Mandarin, Yale romanizations of Chinese language, 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 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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Latin-script digraphs