U+0118 "Ę" Latin Capital Letter E with Ogonek Unicode Character

U+0118 "Ę" Latin Capital Letter E with Ogonek is a modified Latin letter used primarily in Polish, Lithuanian, and some Indigenous American languages to represent a specific nasalized vowel sound. It consists of a standard capital letter E with a small hook or tail attached to the bottom right, called an ogonek, which signals that the vowel is pronounced with nasalization, similar to the French "in" in words like "vin." In Polish, this character appears in important words such as "język" meaning tongue or language, and it is distinct from its lowercase counterpart "ę" which follows the same typographic rule. The ogonek diacritic does not alter the alphabetical ordering in most languages, though it plays a crucial role in phonetics and orthography for accurate pronunciation and meaning.