Sh (digraph)

The digraph sh in the Latin alphabet is written as a combination of S and H.

The digraph sh in the Latin alphabet is written as 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 digraph in compound words, such as kroashent ("roundabout": kroaz ("cross") + hent ("way", "ford"). ===English=== In English, usually represents . The main 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, represents and marks the lenition of ; for example "my life" (cf. "life"). ===Ladino=== In Judaeo-Spanish, sh represents and occurs in both native words ( , ‘under’) and foreign ones (shalom, ‘hello’). 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. ==Other languages== ===Uyghur=== Sh represents the sound 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 . It is the 27th letter of the Uzbek alphabet. ==Romanization== In various romanizations of Standard Chinese, including pinyin and Wade-Giles, sh represents the voiceless retroflex fricative . 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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