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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