Ye with macron

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Ye with macron (Е̄ е̄; italics: Е̄ е̄) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In all its forms it looks exactly like the Latin letter E with macron (Ē ē Ē ē).

Ye with macron was{{cite web| url=https://www.rferl.org/a/last-native-speaker-aleut-language-dies-russia/31139662.html| title= Last Native Speaker Of Rare Dialect Dies In Russia| work= Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty| date= 9 March 2021}} used in the Aleut (Bering dialect),{{cite book |last=Головко |first=Е. В. |year=1994 |title=Словарь алеутско-русский и русско-алеутский (беринговский диалект) |trans-title=Aleut-Russian and Russian-Aleut Dictionary (Bering dialect) |page=14 |publisher=Отд-ние изд-ва "Просвещение" |isbn=5-09-002312-3}} but is still used in Evenki, Mansi, Nanai, Negidal, Orok, Kildin Sami, Selkup and Chechen languages.

Ye with macron also appears in some dialects of several South Slavic languages.

Usage

=South Slavic languages=

Ye with macron is used some South Slavic languages, mainly in the Bulgarian language usually before or after another accented vowel so that the long syllables were skipped and the accent fell on the short vowel: дѐве̄р, грѐбе̄н, рѐпе̄й, and пѐпе̄л. It is also used in some Serbian texts in some words: дêве̄р.{{cite web | url=http://lyudmilantonov.blogspot.com/2011/08/accent-in-bulgarian-dialects.html | title= Accent in Bulgarian dialects | date= October 25, 2012 }}{{cite web | url=http://lyudmilantonov.blogspot.com/2009/05/bulgarian-dialects-bulgarian-balgarski.html | title= Bulgarian dialects | date= May 9, 2013 }}

Computing codes

Being a relatively recent letter, not present in any legacy 8-bit Cyrillic encoding, the letter Е̄ is not represented directly by a precomposed character in Unicode either; it has to be composed as Е+◌̄ (U+0304).

{{Charmap|0415|0435|0304|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter Ie|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter Ie|name3=Combining Macron}}

See also

References

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