É

É, é (e-acute) is a letter of the Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Czech, Slovak, and Uyghur languages. This letter also appears in Catalan, Danish, French, Irish, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese language as a variant of the letter “e”.

[edit] Usage in various languages

[edit] Icelandic

É is the 7th letter of the Icelandic alphabet and represents /jɛː/.

[edit] Hungarian

É is the 10th letter of the Hungarian alphabet and represents /eː/.

[edit] Czech and Slovak

É is the 12th letter of the Czech alphabet and Slovak alphabet, and represents /ɛː/.

[edit] Kashubian

É is the 8th letter of the Kashubian alphabet and represents /ɛ/. It also represents [ej] in some dialects, and represents [i]/[ɨ] in area between Puck and Kartuzy.

[edit] Vietnamese

In Vietnamese alphabet é is the sắc tone (high-rising tone) of “e”.

[edit] Chinese

In Chinese pinyin é is the yángpíng tone (阳平, high-rising tone) of “e”.

[edit] Uyghur

In Latin-Script Uyghur alphabet (Uyghur Latin Yéziqi̡, ULY), é represents /e/.

[edit] English

In English it has some uses, mostly in words of French origin such as Café and Sauté, and names such as Beyoncé and Théo. Pokémon, the media franchise owned by Japanese corporation Nintendo has also come into common use.

[edit] French

“É”, the upper-case version of “é”, is rarely used in French (outside of Quebec) due to typographical reasons. “E” is used in its place. Also, when the accented “é” is unavailable “E” is used to represent it. For example “ÉCOLE” becomes "ECOLE" and “créée” becomes “crEEe”. When used at the beginning of words, such as école, it means that an 's' is missing from it (école meaning school in English)

[edit] Danish and Swedish

In Danish and Swedish the letter “é” is used to indicate that a terminal syllable with the vowel e is stressed, and is often written out only when it changes the meaning. See Acute accent for a more detailed description.

[edit] Character mappings

Windows users can type an "é" by holding the "Alt" key down and dialing either 130 or 0233 (on the numeric pad of the keyboard): alt + 130; alt + 0233. Windows users can type "É" by holding the "Alt" key down and dialing either 144 or 0201.

On US International and UK English keyboard layouts Windows users can more simply access the acute accent letter 'É' by holding down the "AltGR" key whilst typing the 'E' key on the keyboard. This method can also be applied to many other acute accented letters which do not appear on the standard US English keyboard layout.

In Microsoft Word, a user can press Ctrl + ' (apostrophe), then E for "é".

On Mac OS X a user can hold option and press e to get ´, then press e and they will get é.

In X Window using a compose key, a user can press the compose key followed by ' (apostrophe) and e (in either order) to get é.

[edit] See also

• Acute accent

[edit] External links

• Omniglot - writing systems & languages of the world
  • Hungarian language
  • Icelandic language
  • Kashubian language
  • Czech language
  • Slovak language
  • Uyghur language