Ė
Ė ė is a letter of the Latin script, the letter E with a dot above.
Use
[edit]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
[edit]This character is also used in strict Library of Congress transliteration in transliterating the Cyrillic letter Э э into the Latin alphabet.
Computing codes
[edit]| 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 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ The Lithuanian Language: Traditions and Trends, Giedrius Subačius
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- ^ 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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