SH - Language and Linguistics

Language and Linguistics

  • sh (digraph), a digraph used in the orthographies of some languages
    • in English, "sh" in a word stands for a voiceless postalveolar fricative consonant, with rare exceptions
  • sh (letter), the 27th letter of the Albanian alphabet
  • sh!, an interjection meaning "shush!"
  • deprecated ISO 639-1 code for the Serbo-Croatian language

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