Ë

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Ë, ë (e-umlaut or diaeresis) is a letter of Albanian and Kashubian language. This letter also appears in Afrikaans, Dutch, French and Luxembourgish language as a variant of letter “e”. The letter also appears in Turoyo when written in Latin script.

Contents 1 Usage in various languages 1.1 Afrikaans 1.2 Albanian 1.3 French and Dutch 1.4 Kashubian 1.5 Luxembourgish 1.6 Turoyo 2 Character mappings 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Usage in various languages

[edit] Afrikaans

In Afrikaans, the trema (Afrikaans: deelteken) is mostly used to indicate that the vowel should not be diphthonged, for example "geër" (giver) is pronounced /xɪəɪr/, whilst "geer" (a wedge-shaped piece of fabric) is pronounced /xɪər/. There are some cases where the deelteken does nothing to the pronunciation, like in "reën" (rain), which is pronounced /rɪən/, but "reen" (no meaning) would be pronounced the same. The only reason for the deelteken in this case is for traditional reasons, because the archaic form of "reën" is "regen" and the deelteken just indicates that the g was removed.

[edit] Albanian

Ë is the 8th letter of the Albanian alphabet and represents /ə/. It is the most commonly used letter of the language comprising 10 percent of all writings.

[edit] French and Dutch

Ë appears in words like French 'Noël' and Dutch 'koloniën'. This so-called trema is used to indicate that the vowel should not be diphthonged. For example, "Noël" is pronounced /noɛl/, whilst "Noel" would be pronounced /nœl/. Likewise, "koloniën" is pronounced /koloniən/, whilst "kolonien" would be pronounced /kolonin/.

[edit] Kashubian

Ë is the 9th letter of the Kashubian alphabet and represents /ə/.

[edit] Luxembourgish

In Luxembourgish, <ë> is used for stressed schwa /ə/ like in the word <ëmmer> (always). It is also used to indicate a morphological plural ending after two <ee> such as in <Eeër> (eggs) or <leeën> (lay).

[edit] Turoyo

In Latin-script Turoyo (Syriac) the letter ë gives a schwa. In grammar, sometimes it is a replacement for the other, original vowels (a, o, e, i, u). Example words that have ë: knotër (he is waiting), krëhti (they are running), krëqdo (she is dancing), sxërlah (she has closed), gfolëh (he will work), madënḥo (east), mën (what).

[edit] Character mappings

Charset	Unicode	ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16
Majuscule Ë	U+00CB	CB
Minuscule ë	U+00EB	EB

[edit] See also

• Umlaut (diacritic)
• Yo, a Cyrillic homoglyph

[edit] External links

• Omniglot - writing systems & languages of the world
  • Albanian language
  • Kashubian language

The ISO basic Latin alphabet
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