# Ë

| Ë | U+00CB, &#203; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS |
| Composition: | E [U+0045] + ◌̈ [U+0308] |
| ← Ê [U+00CA] | Latin-1 Supplement | Ì → [U+00CC] |

## Albanian
### Letter

Ë (lower case ë)
* The eighth letter of the Albanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

#### Usage notes

* Although Ë is the standard upper case counterpart to ë, it's not uncommon to find it substituted by a simple E even in formal contextes such as logos or mass media like television news.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letters) shkronjë; A a, B b, C c, Ç ç, D d, Dh dh, E e, Ë ë, F f, G g, Gj gj, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, Ll ll, M m, N n, Nj nj, O o, P p, Q q, R r, Rr rr, S s, Sh sh, T t, Th th, U u, V v, X x, Xh xh, Y y, Z z, Zh zh

## Chipewyan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /e/

### Letter

Ë (lower case ë)
* A letter of the Chipewyan alphabet, written in the Latin script.

## Kashubian
### Etymology

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and Ë for development of the glyph itself.

### Letter

Ë (upper case, lower case ë)
* The ninth letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letters) A a, Ą ą, Ã ã, B b, C c, D d, E e, É é, Ë ë, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, Ł ł, M m, N n, O o, Ò ò, Ó ó, Ô ô, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ù ù, W w, Y y, Z z, Ż ż

## Ladin
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɜ/

### Letter

Ë (lower case ë)
* The open-mid central unrounded vowel as used in the Gherdëina variant of Ladin.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letters) A a (À à, Á á, Ä ä), B b, C c, D d, E e (Ë ë, É é, È è), F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, L l, M m, N n, O o (Ò ò, Ó ó, Ö ö), P p, Q q, R r, S s (Ś ś), T t, U u (Ù ù, Ú ú, Ü ü), V v, Z z

## Luxembourgish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ə/

### Letter

Ë (lower case ë)
* A letter of the Luxembourgish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

#### Usage notes

* The letter Ë is generally restricted to stressed syllables, while simple E represents unstressed /ə/. However, Ë is used under certain circumstances to separate strings of vowel letters (e.g. leeën) or, in French-derived words, to show that the E is not silent (e.g. Einseignantë).
* Under certain circumstances, the phoneme /ə/ is represented by the letter É, which see.

## Noon
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a̘/

### Letter

Ë (lower case ë)
* A letter of the Noon alphabet, written in the Latin script.

## Romani
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ə/

### Letter

Ë (upper case, lower case ë)
* (International Standard) The letter E with the umlaut.

#### Usage notes

Although it is pronounced the same as Ä, it indicates a dialectal pronunciation of E.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, X x, I i, J j, K k, Kh kh, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Ph ph, R r, S s, T t, Th th, U u, V v, Z z International Standard: (À à, Ä ä, Ǎ ǎ), Ć ć, Ćh ćh, (È è, Ë ë, Ě ě), (Ì ì, Ï ï, Ǐ ǐ), (Ò ò, Ö ö, Ǒ ǒ), Rr rr, Ś ś, (Ù ù, Ü ü, Ǔ ǔ), Ź ź, Ʒ ʒ, Q q, Ç ç, ϴ θ. Pan-Vlax: Č č, Čh čh, Dž dž, (Dź dź), Ř ř, Š š, (Ś ś), Ž ž, (Ź ź).

### References

* ↑ Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “ë”, in ニューエクスプレス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 16

### Further reading

* Marcel Courthiade (2009) “DECISION : "THE ROMANI ALPHABET"”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 499
* “Introduction 3. How to read Rromani”, in R.E.D-RROM‎, 2021 October 2 (last accessed)

## Slovene
### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Pronunciation

* (sound): IPA: /joː/
* (sound, educated): IPA: /jɔ/

#### Letter

Ë (upper case, lower case ë)
* (linguistics) Letter used for transcription of Russian Ё / ё.

### Etymology 2

Letter E with diaeresis (¨) to signify centralization.

#### Pronunciation

* (Resian, phoneme): IPA: /ə/

#### Letter

Ë (upper case, lower case ë)
* The ninth letter of the Slovene alphabet (Resian), written in the Latin script.

### See also

* E
* Ē
* È
* É
* Ê

### References

* Toporišič, Jože (2001) “Slovaropisna pravila”, in Slovenski pravopis (in Slovene), Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, →ISBN, page 178
* Steenwijk, Han (1994) Ortografia resiana = Tö jošt rozajanskë pïsanjë (overall work in Italian and Slovene), Padua: CLEUP

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ə/ [ə]
* Rhymes: -ə

### Letter

Ë (upper case, lower case ë, Baybayin spelling ᜁ)
* the letter E with a diaeresis representing a schwa

#### Usage notes

* In Tagalog and its standardized form Filipino, Ë is used to represent the schwa, particularly in words originating from other Philippine languages, for instance Maranao (Mëranaw), Pangasinan, Ilocano, and Ibaloi. Before introduction of this letter, the schwa was ambiguously represented by A or E.
* Writing the diaeresis is recommended but not required as long as the reader is aware that the unaccented form is supposed to sound like a schwa (/ə/).
* The use of the diaeresis to represent the central vowel schwa is possibly inspired by the use of the diaeresis in the IPA to represent centralization.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letters) titik; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ñ ñ, Ng ng, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (phoneme): IPA: /ˈeː/, /ˌɛ/

### Letter

Ë (lower case ë)
* The letter E, marked for its syllabic pronunciation distinct from adjacent vowels.