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by Adam Twardoch

Origins of the letter “ę”: the Latin letter “e caudata”, later adopted by the Polish language as “e with ogonek”.

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ę punch at the Plantin-Moretus museum, Antwerpen, Belgium
ę matrix at the Plantin-Moretus museum, Antwerpen, Belgium
ę, ą and other Polish diacritics as seen in the typeface referred to as “Antiqua romani paragnon de Garamond”, shown in Jan Januszowski’s specimen, Cracow, 1590s
ę (Latin “e caudata”) in Claude Garamond’s Gros Canon typeface, ca. 1530 — used as an alternative graphical form for the Latin vowel “æ”
ę, ą and other Polish diacritics as seen in Jan Januszowski’s typeface Nowy karakter polski, Cracow, 1594