Doulos SIL glyphs for Majuscule and minuscule ė.

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

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 printed grammar of the Lithuanian languageGrammatica Litvanica (1653).[1][2]

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 name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DOT ABOVE LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DOT ABOVE
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode278U+0116279U+0117
UTF-8196 150C4 96196 151C4 97
Numeric character referenceĖĖėė
Named character referenceĖė
ISO 8859-13, Windows-1257203CB235EB

See also

References

  1. The Lithuanian Language: Traditions and Trends, Giedrius Subačius DOC (1.5 MB)
  2. 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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