En (cuneiform)

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Cuneiform en; also EN.
Some forms of cuneiform en show a large vertical stroke in the median of the horizontal stroke.


The cuneiform sign en, is a common-use sign of the Amarna letters, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other cuneiform texts (for example Hittite texts). It has a secondary sub-use in the Amarna letters for ka4.[1]

Linguistically, it has the alphabetical usage in texts for n, e, or en, and also a replacement for "e", by vowels, a, or i, or u.

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