E (Indic)

E
E
Example glyphs
Bengali–AssameseE
TibetanE
TamilE
Thai
Malayalam
Sinhala
Ashoka BrahmiE
DevanagariE
Properties
Phonemic representation/eː/
IAST transliteratione E
ISCII code pointAC (172)

E is a vowel of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, E is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter ng after having gone through the Gupta letter . As an Indic vowel, E comes in two normally distinct forms: 1) as an independent letter, and 2) as a vowel sign for modifying a base consonant. Bare consonants without a modifying vowel sign have the inherent "A" vowel.