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{{Short description|Latin letter S with cedilla}}
{{Distinguish|text = [[Ș|Ș (S-comma)]]}}
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[[File:Latin letter S with cedilla.svg|thumb|Appearance of {{nowrap|S-cedilla}} in upper- and lower-case. The left is in the upper-case.]]
'''S-cedilla''' (majuscule: '''Ş''', minuscule: '''ş''') is a letter used in some of the [[Turkic languages]]. It occurs in the [[Azerbaijani alphabet|Azerbaijani]], [[Gagauz language|Gagauz]], [[Turkish alphabet|Turkish]], and [[Turkmen alphabet|Turkmen]] alphabets. It is also planned to be in the Latin-based [[Kazakh alphabets|Kazakh alphabet]].
It is used in [[Brahui language|Brahui]],<ref name="University of Balochistan">{{citation|publisher=Brahui Language Board, University of Balochistan|location=Quetta|url=https://sites.google.com/site/brahuilb/home|title=Bráhuí Báşágal|date=April 2009|access-date=2010-06-29}}</ref> [[Chechen language|Chechen]], [[Crimean Tatar language|Crimean Tatar]], [[Kurdish alphabet|Kurdish]], and [[Tatar language|Tatar]] as well, when they are written in the Latin alphabet.

It commonly represents /ʃ/, the [[voiceless postalveolar fricative]] (like ''[[Sh (digraph)|sh]]'' in ''shoe'').

It is written as the letter [[S]] with a [[cedilla]] below and it has both the lower-case (U+015F) and the upper-case variants (U+15E).

== Romanian ==
[[File:Romanian New Passport 2019.jpg|right|thumb|[[Romanian passport]] since January 2019, showing the substitution of Ş for Ș.]]
[[File:Virguliţa şi sedila.svg|thumb|180px|Appearance of comma (upper row) and [[cedilla]] (lower row) in the Times New Roman font.|left]]
{{Infobox diacritic|char={{nowrap| Şş}}
|name=S-cedilla |unicode=}}
{{Main|S-comma}}

In early versions of [[Unicode]], the [[Romanian alphabet|Romanian]] letter [[S-comma|Ș]] (S-comma) was considered a glyph variant of Ş, and therefore was not present in the Unicode Standard. It is also not present in the Windows 1250 (Central Europe) [[code page]]. The letter was only added to the standard in Unicode 3.0, and some texts in Romanian still use Ş instead.

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== Character encoding ==
{{charmap
|015E|name1=LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
|015F|name2=LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
|map1=[[ISO 8859-2]]|map1char1=AA|map1char2=BA
|map2=[[ISO 8859-3]]|map2char1=AA|map2char2=BA
|map3=[[ISO 8859-9]]|map3char1=DE|map3char2=FE
}}
'''[[HTML entity]] (HTML 5 only, not supported on all browsers):'''
{| border=1 align=left cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 style="border-collapse:collapse" style="border:1px solid gray; font-size:100%; text-align:left; margin-left:10px;"
|- align="center" style="background:#E4E4E4;"
! width="100" | Ş
! width="100" | ş
|-
| align="center" | &amp;Scedil;
| align="center" | &amp;scedil;
|}
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== References ==

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{{Latin script}}

[[Category:Latin letters with diacritics]]
[[Category:Turkish language]]