Ê is used in Tibetan pinyin to represent /e/, for example Gêrzê County. The letter, pronounced / e/, can also contrast with é, pronounced / ɛ/, as in pé (foot). In Portuguese, ê marks a stressed / e/ only in words whose stressed syllable is in an otherwise unpredictable location in the word: "pêssego" (peach). Ê is used in the Persian Latin (Rumi) alphabet, equivalent to ع. Ê is the 7th letter of the Kurdish Kurmanji alphabet and represents /eː/. Ê occasionally used to represent / eː/ or / ɛː/ in words like fêro (they did). ![]() It is used instead of "è" for words that used to be written "es". In French, ê changes the pronunciation of e from /ə/ to /ɛ/. In Pe̍h-ōe-jī, ê is the fifth tone of e: ê ( 的 possessive, adjectival suffix).ĭiacritics are not considered to be distinct letters of the French alphabet. Without the circumflex, e as, the only letter in the syllable, represents /ɤ/: è /ɤ̂/ ( 饿 餓 "hungry"). The circumflex occurs only if ê is the only letter in the syllable: ề /ɛ̂/ ( 诶 誒 "eh!"). In the Pinyin romanization of Standard Mandarin Chinese, ê represents /ɛ/. The circumflex changes the pronunciation of "e" to be /ɛː/ (or /æː/ if the succeeding consonant is either a dorsal or a liquid) Ê is not considered a separate letter in Afrikaans but a variation of "e".
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