Ė
{{short description|Latin letter E, with dot above}}
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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{{Cite web |title=Learning the Language |url=https://www.pokagonband-nsn.gov/departments/education/higher-education/learning-the-language/ |access-date=23 March 2025 |website=Pokagon Band of Potawatomi}} and the Cheyenne language{{cn|date=October 2018}}.
It was coined by Daniel Klein, the author of the first printed grammar of the Lithuanian language, Grammatica Litvanica (1653).{{DOClink|{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20061002025446/http://www.euro-languages.net/lithuania/upload/files/euro_languages_lt_25.doc The Lithuanian Language: Traditions and Trends, Giedrius Subačius]}}|1.5 MB}}{{cite book |last1=Subačius |first1=Giedrius |title=The Lithuanian language: traditions and trends |date=2005 |publisher=The Lithuanian Institute, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania |isbn=9955-548-09-6 |page=9 |url=https://subacius.people.uic.edu/SUB_KN/SUB_2005_Lith_Lang_2nd_ed_ENGLISH.pdf |access-date=14 January 2023}}
Its pronunciation in Lithuanian is {{IPAblink|eː|}}, contrasting with ę, which is pronounced a lower {{IPAblink|ɛː|}} (formerly nasalized {{IPA|[ɛ̃ː]}}) and e, pronounced {{IPA|[ɛ, ɛː]}}.
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
{{charmap
| 0116 | name1 = Latin Capital Letter E with Dot Above
| 0117 | name2 = Latin Small Letter E with Dot Above
| map1 = ISO 8859-13, Windows-1257 | map1char1 = CB | map1char2 = EB
}}
See also
References
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