Sunuwar Letter Eko

It writes Sunuwar’s e vowel. In English, think of the vowel at the start of “say,” before it glides toward its ending. Eko is an ordinary spacing letter used within Sunuwar words.

Krishna Bahadur Jentich created the modern script in 1942 to write Sunuwar. Its alphabetic structure follows a Latin model, and some letterforms appear inspired by Latin shapes. Eko was among Jentich’s original letters; later users expanded the set, including a letter borrowed from the Limbu script.

Why can Eko take a colon?

A colon after Eko marks a long e. The original spelling did not distinguish short and long vowels, so this letter covered both. The length mark was introduced around the turn of the 21st century; it is written after the vowel as in 𑯂:.

There is no single spelling standard as of April 2026. Nepal’s Hamso magazine uses an alphabetic model and promotes stress and tone marks. The Sikkim Herald uses an abugida-like model, where consonants imply a short vowel; it may leave that vowel unwritten after a consonant and does not mark tone. Eko writes e in either convention.