33rd letter of the Latvian alphabets. Uralic languages It is the 20th letter of the Estonian alphabet, where it is used in loan words. It is the 22nd letter of the Karelian and Veps alphabets. It is the 29th letter of the Northern Sami alphabet, where it represents . It also features occasionally in Finnish but is not part of the regular alphabet and only regarded as a variant of Z. In Finnish, the letter ž is only used in loan words, džonkki and maharadža, and in romanization of Russian and other non-Latin alphabets. In Finnish and Estonian, it is possible to replace ž with zh but only when it is technically impossible to typeset the accented character. In Hungarian, the corresponding letter is the digraph Zs. Other languages It is the 13th letter of the Turkmen alphabet, pronounced . It is the 33rd letter of the Laz alphabet, where it represents . It is the 27th and last letter of the Songhay alphabet. It is used in Persian romanization, equivalent to ژ. It is also used in the standard orthography of the Lakota language. It is also used (unofficially) in Cypriot Greek to depict , which does not occur in the Standard Modern Greek, or the Greek Alphabet. It is, at times, used for romanization of Syriac to represent in borrowed Iranian words, but the digraph "zh" is more commonly used. Computing code See also Ż Rz (digraph) Ź Dž Notes References Latin letters with diacritics Phonetic transcription symbols Czech language Lithuanian language Croatian language Serbian language