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'Ę' (minuscule: 'ę') is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from E with the addition of an ogonek.

Under the name 'e caudata' ("tailed e"), ę was used in Latin from as early as the twelfth century to represent the vowel also written ''ae'' or ''æ''.
In Polish, ''ę'' represents a nasalized ''e''. It was also originally a nasalized ''e'' in Lithuanian, but today it has come to be pronounced as a long ''e''.
The character ''Ę'' is used in some Americanist phonetic notation schemes to represent a nasalized ''e''. It was then adopted into the orthographies of some North American languages, such as Western Apache, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Navajo, and Tutchone.

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E with ogonek is present in both Latin-2 and Latin-4, as CA (uppercase) and EA (lowercase). In Latin-10 it is located at DD (uppercase) and FD (lowercase).
E with ogonek is present in Unicode as a precomposed character. As part of WGL4, it can be expected to display correctly on most computer systems.

Appearance	Code points	Name
Ę	U+0118 U+0045, U+0328	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
ę	U+0119 U+0065, U+0328	LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH OGONEK

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