Ė

Ė ė is a letter of the Latin script, the letter E with a dot above.

Doulos SIL glyphs for Majuscule and minuscule ė.

Use

It is the 9th letter in the Lithuanian alphabet, and is also used in the Colognian language of Cologne, Germany, Potawatomi language and Cheyenne language.

It was coined by Daniel Klein, the author of the first grammar of the Lithuanian language.[1]

Its pronunciation in Lithuanian is [], contrasting with ę, which is pronounced a lower [ɛː] (formerly nasalized [ɛ̃ː]) and e, pronounced [ɛ, ɛː].

This 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 when transliterating the Cyrillic letter Э э into the Latin alphabet.

Computing codes

Character information
PreviewĖė
Unicode nameLATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DOT ABOVELATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DOT ABOVE
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode278U+0116279U+0117
UTF-8196 150C4 96196 151C4 97
Numeric character referenceĖĖėė
Named character referenceĖė
ISO 8859-13, Windows-1257203CB235EB

See also

References

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