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Ş ş (S-cedilla) is a letter used in Turkish, Azeri, Tatar, Kurdish, Crimean Tatar and Turkmenian languages.

This letter is pronounced similarly to "sh" — IPA: [ʃ].

Example words: Eskişehir, Şımarık

Example names: Hakan Şükür, Hasan Şaş, Rüştü Reçber

It is sometimes used to represent the Romanian letter Ș/ș (S with comma) on outdated systems which do not support the glyph. Example word: Timișoara.

The letter ş is sometimes used to represent a "pharyngealized s" when transliterating such languages as Arabic, although the letter ṣ is more frequently used for this letter. See Tsade.

See also

• Cedilla for more information on this diacritic