E iotified
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Iotated E is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
.
It is no longer used in any modern language.
, and probably originated as a ligature of ⟨⟩ and ⟨⟩ to represent [je].
It was not used in the Cyrillic numeral system
.
inscription or the Codex Suprasliensis, whereas in others, such as the Enina Apostle
or Undol'skij Fragments, it is not present at all. It is plentifully attested in mediæval manuscripts of both South Slavonic and East Slavonic provenance, co-existing with ⟨⟩, which fulfils the same function. Orthographic practice nevertheless varies: some manuscripts use all three characters, some ⟨⟩ and ⟨⟩, some ⟨⟩ and ⟨⟩, and some only ⟨⟩.
Among the Eastern Slavs ⟨⟩ fell into disuse after the end of the fourteenth century, and it is not therefore represented in printed books from this area, or in modern Church Slavonic. In the South, however, it survived, and was used in the first Serbian printed book, the Octoechos (Oktoih prvoglasnik) of 1474, and appears in the Serbian abecedarium printed in Venice in 1597; its position in the alphabet in this book is between ⟨⟩ and ⟨⟩. It continued to be used in both manuscript and printed material throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but it no longer appears in the alphabet in M. Karaman's abecedarium of 1753. In certain orthographical variants of Bulgarian
, it can be found at least up to the middle of 19th century.
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
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It is no longer used in any modern language.
History
Iotated E has no equivalent in the Glagolitic alphabetGlagolitic alphabet
The Glagolitic alphabet , also known as Glagolitsa, is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. The name was not coined until many centuries after its creation, and comes from the Old Slavic glagolъ "utterance" . The verb glagoliti means "to speak"...
, and probably originated as a ligature of ⟨⟩ and ⟨⟩ to represent [je].
It was not used in the Cyrillic numeral system
Cyrillic numerals
The Cyrillic numerals are a numbering system derived from the Cyrillic script, used by South and East Slavic peoples. The system was used in Russia as late as the early 18th century when Peter the Great replaced it with Arabic numerals....
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Usage
Iotated E is found in some of the very oldest examples of Cyrillic writing, such as the tenth-century MostichMostich
Mostich was a high-ranking official in the 10th-century First Bulgarian Empire, during the rule of Simeon I and Peter I. He bore the title of Ichirgu-boil and was most likely the commander of the state capital Preslav's garrison....
inscription or the Codex Suprasliensis, whereas in others, such as the Enina Apostle
Enina Apostle
The Enina Apostle or Enina Apostolos is a 10th or 11th-century Old Bulgarian Cyrillic manuscript. Discovered in a poor condition in 1960 during restoration work in the central Bulgarian village of Enina, the partially preserved parchment manuscript is housed in the SS. Cyril and Methodius National...
or Undol'skij Fragments, it is not present at all. It is plentifully attested in mediæval manuscripts of both South Slavonic and East Slavonic provenance, co-existing with ⟨⟩, which fulfils the same function. Orthographic practice nevertheless varies: some manuscripts use all three characters, some ⟨⟩ and ⟨⟩, some ⟨⟩ and ⟨⟩, and some only ⟨⟩.
Among the Eastern Slavs ⟨⟩ fell into disuse after the end of the fourteenth century, and it is not therefore represented in printed books from this area, or in modern Church Slavonic. In the South, however, it survived, and was used in the first Serbian printed book, the Octoechos (Oktoih prvoglasnik) of 1474, and appears in the Serbian abecedarium printed in Venice in 1597; its position in the alphabet in this book is between ⟨⟩ and ⟨⟩. It continued to be used in both manuscript and printed material throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but it no longer appears in the alphabet in M. Karaman's abecedarium of 1753. In certain orthographical variants of Bulgarian
Bulgarian language
Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...
, it can be found at least up to the middle of 19th century.
Computing codes
| character | ||||
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTIFIED E |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IOTIFIED E |
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| character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems... |
1124 | 0464 | 1125 | 0465 |
| UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks... |
209 164 | D1 A4 | 209 165 | D1 A5 |
| Numeric character reference Numeric character reference A numeric character reference is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-related markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the Universal Character Set of Unicode... |
Ѥ | Ѥ | ѥ | ѥ |