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Nje

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

Nje
Њ њ
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Language of originSerbian
Itelmen
Udege
Sound values[ɲ]
History
TransliterationsNj nj
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.
Handwritten cursive form of Nje

It is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters En ⟨н⟩ and Soft Sign ⟨ь⟩.[1] It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for Serbian Cyrillic use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph ⟨нь⟩.[1] It corresponds to the digraph ⟨nj⟩ in Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian.[1]

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

Nje is commonly transliterated as nj but it is also transliterated ń, ň, ñ, or ņ.

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Computing codes

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Character information
PreviewЊњ
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER NJE CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER NJE
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode1034U+040A1114U+045A
UTF-8208 138D0 8A209 154D1 9A
Numeric character referenceЊЊњњ
Named character referenceЊњ
Code page 8551479314692
Windows-12511408C1569C
ISO-8859-5170AA250FA
Macintosh Cyrillic190BE191BF
IBM880112708252

See also

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References

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  1. 1 2 3 Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika. 1899.
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  • Wiktionary logo The dictionary definition of Њ at Wiktionary
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  • IBM EBCDIC (Cyrillic Russian) encoding - Windows charsets
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