Ye with macron(Е̄ е̄; italics:Е̄ е̄) is a letter of theCyrillic script.In all its forms itlooks exactly liketheLatin letter E with macron(Ē ēĒ ē).
Ye with macron was[1]used in theAleut(Bering dialect),[2]but is still used inEvenki,Mansi,Nanai,Negidal,Orok,Kildin Sami,SelkupandChechenlanguages.
Ye with macron also appears in some dialects of severalSouth Slavic languages.
Usage
editSouth Slavic languages
editYe with macron is used someSouth Slavic languages,mainly in theBulgarian languageusually before or after another accented vowel so that the long syllables were skipped and the accent fell on the short vowel:дѐве̄р,грѐбе̄н,рѐпе̄й,andпѐпе̄л.It is also used in someSerbiantexts in some words:дêве̄р.[3][4]
Computing codes
editBeing a relatively recent letter, not present in any legacy 8-bit Cyrillic encoding, the letter Е̄ is not represented directly by aprecomposed characterinUnicodeeither; it has to becomposedasЕ+◌̄(U+0304).
Preview | Е | е | ̄ | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE | COMBINING MACRON | |||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1045 | U+0415 | 1077 | U+0435 | 772 | U+0304 |
UTF-8 | 208 149 | D0 95 | 208 181 | D0 B5 | 204 132 | CC 84 |
Numeric character reference | Е |
Е |
е |
е |
̄ |
̄ |
Named character reference | Е | е |
See also
edit- Ē ē:Latin letter Ē- a Latvian, Latgalian, Livonian, and Samogitian letter
- Cyrillic characters in Unicode
References
edit- ^"Last Native Speaker Of Rare Dialect Dies In Russia".
- ^Головко, Е. В. (1994).Словарь алеутско-русский и русско-алеутский (беринговский диалект)[Aleut-Russian and Russian-Aleut Dictionary (Bering dialect)]. Отд-ние изд-ва "Просвещение". p. 14.ISBN5-09-002312-3.
- ^"Accent in Bulgarian dialects".October 25, 2012.
- ^"Bulgarian dialects".May 9, 2013.