Ė
Ė
Latin letter E, with dot above
Ė ė is a letter of the Latin script, the letter E with a dot above.
It is the 9th letter in the Lithuanian alphabet and is also used in the Colognian language of Cologne, Germany, and in the Potawatomi language[citation needed] and the Cheyenne language[citation needed].
It was coined by Daniel Klein, the author of the first printed grammar of the Lithuanian language, Grammatica Litvanica (1653).[1][2]
Its pronunciation in Lithuanian is [eː], contrasting with ę, which is pronounced a lower [ɛː] (formerly nasalized [ɛ̃ː]) and e, pronounced [ɛ, ɛː].
The character is also used in Croatian to denote the old yat, alongside the more usual ě.
Transliteration
This character is also used in strict Library of Congress transliteration in transliterating the Cyrillic letter Э э into the Latin alphabet.
| Preview | Ė | ė | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DOT ABOVE | LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DOT ABOVE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 278 | U+0116 | 279 | U+0117 |
| UTF-8 | 196 150 | C4 96 | 196 151 | C4 97 |
| Numeric character reference | Ė | Ė | ė | ė |
| Named character reference | Ė | ė | ||
| ISO 8859-13, Windows-1257 | 203 | CB | 235 | EB |
- Subačius, Giedrius (2005). The Lithuanian language: traditions and trends (PDF). The Lithuanian Institute, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania. p. 9. ISBN 9955-548-09-6. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
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