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5t letter o the Laitin alphabet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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E (named e /ˈ/, plural ees)[1] is a vowel an the fift letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the maist commonly uised letter in mony leids, includin: Czech,[2] Dens,[2] Dutch,[2] Inglis,[3] French,[4] German,[5] Hungarian,[2] Latin,[2] Norwegian,[2] Spaingie,[6] an Swadish.[2]

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Cursive script 'e' and capital 'E' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style
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History

More information Egyptian hieroglyph q’, Phoenician He ...

Letter 'E' differs little frae its derivational soorce, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'. In etymology, the Semitic   haes been suggestit tae hae stairtit as a prayin or cryin human figure (hillul 'jubilation'), an wis probably based on a seemilar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicatit a different pronunciation. In Semitic, the letter representit /h/ (an /e/ in foreign wirds), in Greek acame epsilon wi the value /e/. Etruscans an Romans follaeed this uisage. Altho Middlin Inglis spellin uised 'e' tae represent lang an short /e/, the Great Vowel Shift chynged lang /eː/ (as in 'me' or 'bee') tae /iː/ while short /e/ (as in 'met' or 'bed') remains a mid vowel.

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Relatit letters an ither similar characters

  • Ε ε : Greek letter Epsilon
  • Ɛ ɛ : Latin letter Epsilon
  • Е е : Cyrillic letter Ye
  • Є є : Cyrillic letter Ukrainian Ye
  • Э э : Cyrillic letter E
  •  : Estimatit sign (uised on prepackaged guids for sale within the European Union).
  •  : Euro sign.
  •  : a mathematical constant.
  •  : a Hangul letter.
  •  : in set theory, the seembol for set membership.
  •  : the Euler–Mascheroni constant.
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Computin codes

More information Character, Encodins ...
1 Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.

Ither representations

NATO phonetic Morse code
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In Breetish Sign Leid (BSL), the letter 'e' is signed bi extendin the index finger o the richt haund touchin the tip o index on the left haund, wi aw fingers o left haund open.

References

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