used to indicate that ae and oe form a hiatus, not a diphthong (in the Classical pronunciation) or a monophthong (in traditional English pronunciations). Examples: aër "air", poëta "poet", coërcere "to coerce". Lenape In the Lenape language, the letter ë is used to represent the schwa vowel. An example of its use is the word mikwën, which means "feather". It can also be found in more complex words, such as ntëmpëm, which means "my brain". Luxembourgish In Luxembourgish, is used for stressed schwa like in the word ëmmer ("always"). It is also used to indicate a morphological plural ending after two such as in Eeër ("eggs") or leeën ("lay"). Mayan languages In the modern orthography of Mayan languages, the letter Ë represents . Piedmontese Ë represents the mid central vowel in the modern orthography of Piedmontese language. Quenya In constructed language Quenya diaeresis indicates that a vowel is not part of a diphthong, for example in ëa or ëo, while final ë is marked with a diaeresis to remind English-speakers that it is not silent. Russian In some Latin transliterations of Russian such as ISO 9, ë is used for its homoglyph ё, representing a , as in Potëmkin to render the Cyrillic Потёмкин. Other translations use yo, jo or (ambiguously) simply e. Syriac In the romanization of Syriac, the letter Ë gives a schwa. In some grammatical constructions, it is a replacement for the other, original vowels (a, o, e, i, u). Example words that have Ë: knoṭër ("he is waiting"), krëhṭi ("they are running"), krëqdo ("she is dancing"), ŝërla ("she has closed"), gfolëḥ ("he will work"), madënḥo ("east"), mën ("what"), ašër ("believe"). Turoyo and Assyrian languages may utilize this diacritic, albeit rarely. Seneca In Seneca, the letter Ë is used to represent , a close-mid front unrounded nasalized vowel. Tagalog In Tagalog and its standardized form Filipino, Ë is used to represent the schwa, particularly in words originating from other Philippine languages, for instance Maranao (Mëranaw), Pangasinan, Ilocano, and Ibaloi. Before introduction of this letter, schwa was ambiguously represented by A or E. Uyghur Ë is the 6th letter of the Uyghur Latin alphabet and represents close-mid front unrounded vowel . Character mappings See also Umlaut (diacritic) Yo, a Cyrillic homoglyph References E-umlaut