Ń
Ń (minuscule: ń) is a letter formed by putting an acute accent over the letter N. In the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet; the alphabets of Apache, Navajo, Polish, Karakalpak, Kashubian, Wymysorys and the Sorbian languages; and the romanization of Khmer and Macedonian, it represents /ɲ/,[1] which is the same as Czech and Slovak ň, Serbo-Croatian and Albanian nj, Spanish and Galician ñ, Italian and French gn, Hungarian and Catalan ny, and Portuguese nh. In Yoruba, it represents a syllabic /n/ with a high tone, and it often connects a pronoun to a verb: for example, when using the pronoun for "I" with the verb for "to eat", the resulting expression is mo ń jeun.
Usage
Polish
In Polish, it appears directly after ⟨n⟩ in the alphabet, but no Polish word begins with this letter, because it may not appear before a vowel (the letter may appear only before a consonant or in the word-final position).[2] In the former case, a digraph ⟨ni⟩ is used to indicate /ɲ/. If the vowel following is /i/, only one ⟨i⟩ appears.
Examples
- kwiecieńⓘ (April)
- słoń (elephant)
- dłoń (hand)
- hańba (disgrace)
- słońce (sun)
Cantonese
It is used in the Yale romanisation of Cantonese when the nasal syllable /ŋ̩/ has a rising tone.
Lule Sami
Traditionally ⟨Ń⟩ has been used in Lule Sami to represent /ŋ/. However, in modern orthography, such as signage in Lule Sami by the Swedish government, ⟨Ŋ⟩ is used instead.
Kazakh
In Kazakh, it was proposed in 2018 to replace the Cyrillic Ң by this Latin alphabet and represents /ŋ/. The replacement suggestion was modified to Ŋ in 2019; and in 2021, it was suggested to replace it with Ñ.
Karakalpak
Ń/ń is the 19th letter of Karakalpak alphabet and represents /ŋ/.
Macedonian
Ń is used in Macedonian for the scientific romanisation of the Cyrillic letter ⟨њ⟩, representing /ɲ/, although the digraph ⟨nj⟩ is much more common. This, alongside ⟨ĺ⟩ and ⟨lj⟩, is one of the only two cases where there are two accepted Latin versions of a Cyrillic letter in the scientific romanisation, as per the orthography.
Computer use
HTML characters and Unicode code point numbers:
- Ń: Ń or Ń – U+0143
- ń: ń or ń – U+0144
In Unicode, Ń and ń are located the "Latin Extended-A" block.
See also
References
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- History
- Spread
- Romanization
- Roman numerals
- Ligatures
Letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | |
Letter N with diacritics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ńń | Ǹǹ | Ňň | Ññ | Ṅṅ | Ņņ | Ṇṇ | Ṋṋ | Ṉṉ | N̈n̈ | Ɲɲ | Ŋŋ | 𝼔 | Ƞƞ | Ꞑꞑ | Ꞥꞥ | ᵰ | ᶇ | ɳ | ȵ | ꬻ | ꬼ | 𝼧 | |||
Letters using acute accent ( ◌́ ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Áá | Ćć | Ḉḉ | Éé | F́ f́ | Ǵǵ | Í í | Ḱḱ | Ĺĺ | Ḿḿ | Ńń | Óó | Ṕṕ | Ŕŕ | Śś | Úú | Ẃẃ | X́x́ | Ýý | Źź |
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- ISO/IEC 646
- Unicode
- Western Latin character sets
- DIN 91379: Unicode subset for Europe