Nje

Nje (Њ њ; italics: Њ њ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

It is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters En and Soft Sign .Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika. 1899. It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for Serbian Cyrillic use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph . It corresponds to the digraph in Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian.

It is today used in Serbian, Itelmen and Udege, where it represents a palatal nasal , similar to the in "canyon" (cf. Polish , Czech and Slovak , Latvian ⟨ņ⟩, Galician, Spanish and Filipino , Occitan, Portuguese and Vietnamese , Catalan and Hungarian , and Italian and French ).

Nje is commonly transliterated as but it is also transliterated , , , or .

Related letters and other similar characters Н н : Cyrillic letter En Ь ь : Cyrillic letter Soft sign Ñ ñ : Latin letter N with tilde - a Filipino, Spanish, and Tetum letter Ń ń : Latin letter N with acute - a Kashubian, Polish, and Sorbian letter Ň ň : Latin letter N with caron - a Czech, Turkmen, and Slovak letter Ņ ņ : Latin letter N with cedilla - a Latvian letter Љ љ : Cyrillic letter Lje Ԋ ԋ - Cyrillic letter Komi Nje Ԩ ԩ : Cyrillic letter En with left hook - an Uilta letter Ǌ ǋ ǌ : Unicode compatibility characters

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