Nje

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

Cyrillic letter Nje
Phonetic usage:[ɲ]
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
АБВГҐДЂ
ЃЕЀЁЄЖЗ
З́ЅИЍІЇЙ
ЈКЛЉМНЊ
ОŌПРСС́Т
ЋЌУӮЎФХ
ЦЧЏШЩЪЫ
ЬЭЮЯ
Non-Slavic letters
А́А̀ӐА̄А̊А̃Ӓ
Ӓ̄В̌ӘӘ́Ә̃ӚӔ
ҒГ̧Г̑Г̄Г̣Г̌Ҕ
ӺҒ̌ӶԀԂ
Д̆Д̣ԪԬД̆Ӗ
Е̄Е̃Ё̄Є̈ӁҖ
ӜԄҘӞЗ̌З̱З̣
ԐԐ̈ӠԆӢИ̃Ҋ
ӤИ́ҚӃҠҞҜ
ԞК̣ԚӅԮԒԠ
ԈԔӍӉҢԨӇ
ҤԢԊО́О̀О̆О̂
О̃ӦӦ̄ӨӨ̄Ө́Ө̆
ӪҨԤҦР̌ҎԖ
ҪС̣С̱ԌТ̌Т̣
ҬԎУ̃ӰӰ́
ӲҮҮ́ҰХ̣Х̱Х̮
Х̑ҲӼӾҺҺ̈Ԧ
ҴҶӴӋҸ
ҼҾЫ̆Ы̄
ӸҌЭ̆Э̄Э̇ӬӬ́
Ӭ̄Ю̆Ю̈Ю̈́Ю̄Я̆Я̄
Я̈ԘԜӀ
Archaic letters
ҀѺ
ОУѠѼѾ
ѢѤѦ
ѪѨѬѮ
ѰѲѴѶ

It is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters En н and Soft Sign ь.[1] It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for 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 Macedonian, variants of Serbo-Croatian when written in Cyrillic (Bosnian, Montenegrin, and Serbian), Itelmen and Udege, where it represents a palatal nasal /ɲ/, similar to the ny in "canyon" (cf. Polish ń, Czech and Slovak ň, Galician and Spanish ñ, Occitan, Portuguese and Vietnamese nh, Catalan and Hungarian ny, and Italian and French gn).

Computing codes

Character information
PreviewЊњ
Unicode nameCYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER NJECYRILLIC SMALL LETTER NJE
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhex
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
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See also

References

  1. Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika. 1899.
  • The dictionary definition of Њ at Wiktionary
  • The dictionary definition of њ at Wiktionary
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