Ė

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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 Potawatomi language[1] and the Cheyenne languageScript error: No such module "Unsubst"..

It was coined by Daniel Klein, the author of the first printed grammar of the Lithuanian language, Grammatica Litvanica (1653).[2][3]

Its pronunciation in Lithuanian is Template:IPAblink, contrasting with ę, which is pronounced a lower Template:IPAblink (formerly nasalized Script error: No such module "IPA".) and e, pronounced Script error: No such module "IPA"..

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.

Computing codes

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See also

References

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