Ė

Ė ė is a letter of the Latin script, the letter E with a dot above.

Majuscule and minuscule ė.

Use

It is the 9th letter in the Lithuanian alphabet and is also used 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

This character is also used in strict Library of Congress transliteration in transliterating the Cyrillic letter Э э into the Latin alphabet.

Computing codes

Character information

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

• Dot (diacritic)

References

1. The Lithuanian Language: Traditions and Trends, Giedrius Subačius DOC (1.5 MB)
2. 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.