diff --git a/runtime/syntax/sh.vim b/runtime/syntax/sh.vim
index 0a8fb47..290d4b6 100644
--- a/runtime/syntax/sh.vim
+++ b/runtime/syntax/sh.vim
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 " 		Lennart Schultz <Lennart.Schultz@ecmwf.int>
 " Last Change:		2024 Mar 04 by Vim Project
 "		2024 Nov 03 by Aliaksei Budavei <0x000c70 AT gmail DOT com> (improved bracket expressions, #15941)
+"		2025 Jan 06 add $0 to bashSpecialVariables (#16394)
 " Version:		208
 " Former URL:		http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#SYNTAX_SH
 " For options and settings, please use:      :help ft-sh-syntax
@@ -404,7 +405,7 @@
 if exists("b:is_bash")
  syn cluster shCommandSubList add=bashSpecialVariables,bashStatement
  syn cluster shCaseList add=bashAdminStatement,bashStatement
- syn keyword bashSpecialVariables contained auto_resume BASH BASH_ALIASES BASH_ALIASES BASH_ARGC BASH_ARGC BASH_ARGV BASH_ARGV BASH_CMDS BASH_CMDS BASH_COMMAND BASH_COMMAND BASH_ENV BASH_EXECUTION_STRING BASH_EXECUTION_STRING BASH_LINENO BASH_LINENO BASHOPTS BASHOPTS BASHPID BASHPID BASH_REMATCH BASH_REMATCH BASH_SOURCE BASH_SOURCE BASH_SUBSHELL BASH_SUBSHELL BASH_VERSINFO BASH_VERSION BASH_XTRACEFD BASH_XTRACEFD CDPATH COLUMNS COLUMNS COMP_CWORD COMP_CWORD COMP_KEY COMP_KEY COMP_LINE COMP_LINE COMP_POINT COMP_POINT COMPREPLY COMPREPLY COMP_TYPE COMP_TYPE COMP_WORDBREAKS COMP_WORDBREAKS COMP_WORDS COMP_WORDS COPROC COPROC DIRSTACK EMACS EMACS ENV ENV EUID FCEDIT FIGNORE FUNCNAME FUNCNAME FUNCNEST FUNCNEST GLOBIGNORE GROUPS histchars HISTCMD HISTCONTROL HISTFILE HISTFILESIZE HISTIGNORE HISTSIZE HISTTIMEFORMAT HISTTIMEFORMAT HOME HOSTFILE HOSTNAME HOSTTYPE IFS IGNOREEOF INPUTRC LANG LC_ALL LC_COLLATE LC_CTYPE LC_CTYPE LC_MESSAGES LC_NUMERIC LC_NUMERIC LINENO LINES LINES MACHTYPE MAIL MAILCHECK MAILPATH MAPFILE MAPFILE OLDPWD OPTARG OPTERR OPTIND OSTYPE PATH PIPESTATUS POSIXLY_CORRECT POSIXLY_CORRECT PPID PROMPT_COMMAND PS1 PS2 PS3 PS4 PWD RANDOM READLINE_LINE READLINE_LINE READLINE_POINT READLINE_POINT REPLY SECONDS SHELL SHELL SHELLOPTS SHLVL TIMEFORMAT TIMEOUT TMPDIR TMPDIR UID
+ syn keyword bashSpecialVariables contained auto_resume BASH BASH_ALIASES BASH_ALIASES BASH_ARGC BASH_ARGC BASH_ARGV BASH_ARGV BASH_CMDS BASH_CMDS BASH_COMMAND BASH_COMMAND BASH_ENV BASH_EXECUTION_STRING BASH_EXECUTION_STRING BASH_LINENO BASH_LINENO BASHOPTS BASHOPTS BASHPID BASHPID BASH_REMATCH BASH_REMATCH BASH_SOURCE BASH_SOURCE BASH_SUBSHELL BASH_SUBSHELL BASH_VERSINFO BASH_VERSION BASH_XTRACEFD BASH_XTRACEFD CDPATH COLUMNS COLUMNS COMP_CWORD COMP_CWORD COMP_KEY COMP_KEY COMP_LINE COMP_LINE COMP_POINT COMP_POINT COMPREPLY COMPREPLY COMP_TYPE COMP_TYPE COMP_WORDBREAKS COMP_WORDBREAKS COMP_WORDS COMP_WORDS COPROC COPROC DIRSTACK EMACS EMACS ENV ENV EUID FCEDIT FIGNORE FUNCNAME FUNCNAME FUNCNEST FUNCNEST GLOBIGNORE GROUPS histchars HISTCMD HISTCONTROL HISTFILE HISTFILESIZE HISTIGNORE HISTSIZE HISTTIMEFORMAT HISTTIMEFORMAT HOME HOSTFILE HOSTNAME HOSTTYPE IFS IGNOREEOF INPUTRC LANG LC_ALL LC_COLLATE LC_CTYPE LC_CTYPE LC_MESSAGES LC_NUMERIC LC_NUMERIC LINENO LINES LINES MACHTYPE MAIL MAILCHECK MAILPATH MAPFILE MAPFILE OLDPWD OPTARG OPTERR OPTIND OSTYPE PATH PIPESTATUS POSIXLY_CORRECT POSIXLY_CORRECT PPID PROMPT_COMMAND PS0 PS1 PS2 PS3 PS4 PWD RANDOM READLINE_LINE READLINE_LINE READLINE_POINT READLINE_POINT REPLY SECONDS SHELL SHELL SHELLOPTS SHLVL TIMEFORMAT TIMEOUT TMPDIR TMPDIR UID
  syn keyword bashStatement chmod clear complete du egrep expr fgrep find gnufind gnugrep grep head less ls mkdir mv rm rmdir rpm sed sleep sort strip tail
  syn keyword bashAdminStatement daemon killall killproc nice reload restart start status stop
  syn keyword bashStatement	command compgen