Ė ė is the 9th letter in the Lithuanian alphabet.
It was coined by Daniel Klein, the author of the first grammar of the Lithuanian language[1].
This character is also used when transliterating the cyrillic letter Э э into the Latin alphabet.
Its pronunciation in Lithuanian is [eː], compared to ę, which is pronounced a lower [ɛː] (formerly nasalized), or e, pronounced [ɛ, ɛː].
Computer use
- ISO-8859-13 and Windows-1257: uppercase Ė - 0xCB (203), lowercase ė - 0xEB (235)
- UTF-8: uppercase - 0xC496, lowercase - 0xC497
- Unicode: uppercase Ė - U+0116, lowercase ė - U+0117
See also
References
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Letter E with diacritics
Letters using dot-above sign
history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • list of letters • ISO/IEC 646 |
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