Ndebe · Ńdébé
ẹ
The vowel ẹ on its own — a syllable of the Ndebe syllabary with no consonant body, which the script writes with its own character rather than as a body with the consonant left off.
The three tones
Tone is part of the character in Ndebe, not a mark added to it, so one syllable is written three different ways. These are the same shape family — the character on the left in each box is the one to learn first, and it is the form the chart shows.
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high tone
ẹ
U+E253
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mid tone
ẹ
U+E254
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low tone
ẹ
U+E255
Words that use it
1 of the Igbo entries here carry this syllable, shortest first. The Ndebe spelling is written under each word, and the syllable you are looking for is in it.