S̈, s̈ in lower case, also s with
diaeresis, is a letter in the
Chechen language
Chechen (, ) (, , ) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by 2 million people, mostly in the Chechen Republic and by members of the Chechen diaspora throughout Russia and the rest of Europe, Jordan, Central Asia (mainly Kazakhstan and Kyrgy ...
, where it represents the
voiceless postalveolar fricative
A voiceless postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The International Phonetic Association uses the term ''voiceless postalveolar fricative'' only for the sound , but it also describes the voiceless ...
. It has the same sound as the
š used in
Slavic languages
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the ...
written with the Latin alphabet, the Turkish/Romanian
ş and the common digraph "sh".
In the Chechen language, it was changed from the original ş into s̈, at the same time that ç was changed into
c̈
C̈, c̈ in lower case, also called C with diaeresis, is a letter in the Chechen language. It represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate /t͡ʃ/, like the English pronunciation of ''ch'' in the word ''chocolate''.
The original letter repre ...
.
In older Czech orthography s̈ was used in codas instead of ſſ for /ʃ/, modern orthography uses š for all instances.
In the
Seneca language
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, s̈ represents /ʃ/.
It is also used in the digraph s̈h in the
Shipibo language
Shipibo (also Shipibo-Conibo, Shipibo-Konibo) is a Panoan language spoken in Peru and Brazil by approximately 26,000 speakers. Shipibo is an official language of Peru.
Dialects
Shipibo has three attested dialects:
* Shipibo and Konibo (Coni ...
; s̈h represents /ʂ/, and sh (without the diaeresis) represents /ʃ/.
Latin letters with diacritics
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