history of two dots

[Margarita Nafpaktitis]

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of another colleague I would like to ask if
anyone knows when the two dots over the Russian "e" were
first introduced to distinguish it from unstressed "e"?
(And what might those two dots be called in Russian?)

Thank you in advance!

Margarita

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Margarita Nafpaktitis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages &
Literatures
University of Virginia
109 New Cabell Hall / PO Box 400783
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4783
Tel: (434) 924-3548   FAX: (434) 982-2744
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mn2t/home.html

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