The letter ⟨э⟩ originated in the thirteenth century as a variant of ⟨є⟩, at first, according to Đorđić in superscripted line-final … See more

In the specimens of the civil script presented to Peter I in 1708, forms of ⟨э⟩ were included among forms of ⟨є⟩, but the latter was deleted by Peter. The former was used in some early 18th-century Russian texts, but some auth… See more

Unlike Russian, Belarusian has many native words in which it occurs after a hard consonant. Moreover, its orthography was standardized later than that of Russian (which reached its present form at the beginning o… See more

In Tuvan the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel.
In the Tajik language, the letters е and э have the same function, except that э is used at the beginning of a word (ex. Эрон, "… See more

• Е е : Cyrillic letter Ye
• Є є : Cyrillic letter Ukrainian Ye
• Ε ε : Greek letter Epsilon
• E e : Latin letter E… See more