Kayah Li Vowel E

It marks the vowel in a Kayah Li syllable. This Kayah Li vowel mark is written after its carrier but displayed above it. Native spellings use ꤢ as the carrier; some loanword spellings use ꤣ. The carrier and mark together make the readable unit, so ꤧ on its own is incomplete.

Htae Bu Phae devised the modern Kayah Li script in 1962, partly in response to Latin-based spellings that had appeared after 1950. Its order and some forms reflect Brahmic and Myanmar writing traditions, while most Kayah Li letter shapes developed independently. A separate Kayah Li spelling tradition uses Myanmar script and has related vowel marks; the direction of influence is unclear. In 2006, Kayah Li was being taught in refugee-camp schools in Thailand.

How to type ꤧ

Type a Kayah Li carrier, then this combining mark. Enter ꤢꤧ for a native spelling or ꤣꤧ in a loanword spelling. If a tone mark follows, keep ꤧ before it in the character order, even though ꤧ is drawn above the carrier.

If the mark floats, sits too high, or appears as a box, check the font and its Kayah Li support. Combining marks depend on font positioning, so the same character sequence can look different in different fonts.