We are concerned with the shock diffraction configuration for isothermal gas mod-eled by the conservation laws of nonlinear wave system.We reformulate the shock diffraction problem into a linear degenerate elliptic equation in a fixed bounded domain.The degeneracy is of Keldysh type—the derivative of a solution blows up at the boundary.We establish the global existence of solutions and prove the C0,1/2-regularity of solutions near the degenerate boundary.We also compare the difference of solutions between the isothermal gas and the polytropic gas.