Ž (minuscule: ž) is:
the 25th letter of the Slovenian alphabet, the 30th letter of the Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian scripts; the 42nd letter of the Czech; the 19th letter of the Estonian; the 33rd letter of the Latvian; the 32nd letter of the Lithuanian; the 46th letter of Slovak; the 13th letter of the Turkmen alphabet and the 29th letter of the Sami alphabet. It also features occasionally in Finnish.
In addition, the character is also used as a transliteration of Cyrillic /Ж/ in Macedonian (in 31st position) and occasionally in Bulgarian (with no special running order of Roman characters) in. It denotes a similar phoneme to the Portuguese and French J. Apart from Estonian and Turkmen, this is the final letter of the other alphabets. In English, it is pronounced like the /g/ in genre.
