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(e-umlaut or diaeresis) is a letter of Albanian and Kashubian language. This letter also appears in Dutch, French and Luxembourgish language as a variant of letter “e”.

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Usage in various languages

Albanian

Kashubian

French and Dutch

Luxembourgish

Character mappings

See also

External links

Usage in various languages

Albanian

Ë is the 8th letter of the Albanian alphabet and represents .

Kashubian

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

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 , whilst "Noel" would be pronounced . Likewise, "koloniën" is pronounced , whilst "kolonien" would be pronounced .

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 such as in (eggs) or (lay).

Character mappings

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

See also

★ Umlaut (diacritic)

★ Yo (Cyrillic)

External links

★ Omniglot - writing systems & languages of the world

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★ Albanian language

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★ Kashubian language