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Ë, ë (e-diaeresis) is a letter in the Albanian, Kashubian, Emilian, Romagnol, Ladin, and Lenape [1] alphabets. As a variant of the letter e, it also appears in ...
In the forms of handwriting that emerged in the early modern period (of which Sütterlin is the latest and best-known example) the letter e was composed of two short vertical lines very close together, and the superscript e looked like two tiny strokes. Even from the 16th century, the handwritten convention of indicating umlaut by two dots ...
Diacritical marks of two dots ¨, placed side-by-side over or under a letter, are used in several languages for several different purposes. The most familiar to English-language speakers are the diaeresis and the umlaut , though there are numerous others.
Diaeresis [a] (/ d aɪ ˈ ɛr ə s ɪ s,-ˈ ɪər-/ dy-ERR-ə-siss, - EER-) [1] is a diacritical mark consisting of two dots ( ̈) that indicates that two adjacent vowel letters are separate syllables – a vowel hiatus (also called a diaeresis) – rather than a digraph or diphthong.
Small capital E FUT [2] /e̞̥/ ꬲ Blackletter E Teuthonista [4] ꬳ Barred E ꬴ E with flourish Ǝ ᴲ ǝ: Turned E Pan-Nigerian alphabet: Anii alphabet [11] / ə ~ ɨ / Awing alphabet [12] / e ~ ə / Kanuri alphabet [13] Lama alphabet [14] Lukpa alphabet [15] Turka alphabet ⱻ Small capital turned E Finno-Ugric transcription (FUT) [2] Ə ...
Turkish uses a G with a breve ( Ğ ), two letters with two dots ( Ö and Ü , representing two rounded front vowels), two letters with a cedilla ( Ç and Ş , representing the affricate /tʃ/ and the fricative /ʃ/), and also possesses a dotted capital İ (and a dotless lowercase ı representing a high unrounded back vowel).
Diacritics are written above lower-case letters and at the upper left of capital letters. In the case of a digraph, the second vowel takes the diacritics. A breathing diacritic is written to the left of an acute or grave accent but below a circumflex. Accents are written above a diaeresis or between its two dots.
Historically A-diaeresis was written as an A with two dots above the letter. A-umlaut was written as an A with a small e written above (Aͤ aͤ): this minute e degenerated to two vertical bars in medieval handwriting (A̎ a̎). In most later handwritings these bars in turn nearly became dots.