Ė ė is a letter of the Latin script, the letter E with a dot above.
It is the 9th letter in the Lithuanian alphabet and is also used in the Colognian language of Cologne, Germany, and in the Potawatomi language and the Cheyenne language.
It was coined by Daniel Klein, the author of the first printed grammar of the Lithuanian language, Grammatica Litvanica (1653).[1]
Its pronunciation in Lithuanian is pronounced as /link/, contrasting with ę, which is pronounced a lower pronounced as /link/ (formerly nasalized pronounced as /[ɛ̃ː]/) and e, pronounced pronounced as /[ɛ, ɛː]/.
The character is also used in Croatian to denote the old yat, alongside the more usual ě.
This character is also used in strict Library of Congress transliteration in transliterating the Cyrillic letter Э э into the Latin alphabet.