deployed in the Latinic writing systems of Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Bashkir. It is also used in some systems of transliterating Georgian to represent (). In addition, the grapheme transliterates cuneiform orthography of Sumerian and Akkadian or , and (based on Akkadian orthography) the Hittite phoneme, as well as the phoneme of Semitic languages, transliterating shin (Phoenician and its descendants), the direct predecessor of Cyrillic ш. Computing code See also Ш, ш – Sha (Cyrillic) Sz (digraph) Ś ʃ – Esh (letter) Caron Shin (letter) Voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant Ș Ş References Sources Latin letters with diacritics Phonetic transcription symbols Lithuanian language Croatian language Serbian language Eastern Aramaic languages Neo-Aramaic languages