Sh (digraph)
Sh is a digraph of the Latin alphabet, a combination of S and H. European languages. Albanian. In Albanian, sh represents . It is considered a distinct letter, named shë, and placed between S and T in the Albanian alphabet. Breton. In Breton, sh represents . It is not considered a distinct letter and it is a variety of zh (e. g. ("older"). It is not considered as a diphthong in compound words, such as "kroashent" ("roundabout": "kroaz" ("cross") + "hent" ("way", "ford"). English. In English, usually represents . The exception is in compound words, where the and are not a  digraph, but pronounced separately, e.g. "hogshead" is "hogs-head" , not "*hog-shead" . "Sh" is not considered a distinct letter for collation purposes. In Old English orthography, the sound was written . In Middle English it came to be written or ; the latter spelling has been adopted as the usual one in Modern English. Irish. In Irish "sh" is pronounced and represents the lenition of "s"; for example "my life" (cf. "saol" "life"). Ladino. In Judaeo-Spanish, sh represents and occurs in both native words (, ‘under’) and foreign ones ("shalom", ‘hullo’). In the Hebrew script it is written ש. Occitan. In Occitan , sh represents . It mostly occurs in the Gascon dialect of Occitan and corresponds with "s" or "ss" in other Occitan dialects: "peish = peis" "fish", "naishença = naissença" "birth", "sheis = sièis" "six". An "i" before "sh" is silent: "peish, naishença" are pronounced . Some words have "sh" in all Occitan dialects: they are Gascon words adopted in all the Occitan language ("Aush" "Auch", "Arcaishon" "Arcachon") or foreign borrowings ("shampó" "shampoo"). For s·h, see Interpunct#Occitan. Spanish. In Spanish, sh represents almost only in foreign origin words, as "flash", "show", "shuara" or "geisha". Royal Spanish Academy recommends adapting in both spelling and  pronunciation with s, adapting to common pronunciation in peninsular dialect. Nevertheless, in American dialects is used as nearly like [t͡ʃ]. Other languages. Kazakh. In the 2018 amendment of Kazakh Latin alphabets, the letter sh was represented and was the 31st letter of the Kazakh Latin alphabet. Somali. Sh represents the sound in the Somali Latin Alphabet. It is considered a separate letter, and is the 9th letter of the alphabet. Uyghur. Sh represents the sound in the Uyghur Latin script. It is considered a separate letter, and is the 14th letter of the alphabet. Uzbek. In Uzbek, the letter sh  represents . It is the 27th letter of the Uzbek alphabet. Romanization. In the Pinyin, Wade-Giles, and Yale romanizations of Chinese, sh represents retroflex . It contrasts with , which is written x in Pinyin, hs in Wade-Giles, and sy in Yale. In the Hepburn romanization of Japanese, sh represents . Other romanizations write as "s" before "i" and "sy" before other vowels. International auxiliary languages. Ido. In Ido, sh represents .