Nje (Њ њ; italics:
''Њ њ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, ...
.
It is a
ligature
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* Ligature (medicine), a piece of suture used to shut off a blood vessel or other anatomical structure
** Ligature (orthodontic), used in dentistry
* Ligature (music), an element of musical notation used especially in the me ...
of the Cyrillic letters
En and
Soft Sign
The soft sign (Ь, ь, italics ) also known as the front yer, front jer, or er malak (lit. "small er") is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Old Church Slavonic, it represented a short (or "reduced") front vowel. As with its companion, the b ...
.
[Maretić, Tomislav. ''Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika''. 1899.] It was invented by
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph .
It corresponds to the
digraph in
Gaj's Latin alphabet
Gaj's Latin alphabet ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Gajeva latinica, separator=" / ", Гајева латиница}, ), also known as ( sh-Cyrl, абецеда, ) or ( sh-Cyrl, гајица, link=no, ), is the form of the Latin script used for writing Serb ...
for
Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and ...
.
It is today used in
Macedonian, variants of
Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and ...
when written in Cyrillic (
Bosnian,
Montenegrin, and
Serbian),
Itelmen
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and
Udege, where it represents a
palatal nasal
The voiced palatal nasal is a type of consonant used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a lowercase letter ''n'' with a leftward-pointing tail protruding from the bottom ...
, similar to the in "canyon" (cf. Polish , Czech and Slovak , Latvian ⟨
ņ⟩, Galician and Spanish , 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
Computing codes
See also
*
Iotation
In Slavic languages, iotation (, ) is a form of palatalization that occurs when a consonant comes into contact with a palatal approximant from the succeeding phoneme. The is represented by iota (ι) in the Cyrillic alphabet and the Greek alpha ...
References
External links
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*{{Wiktionary-inline, њ
IBM EBCDIC (Cyrillic Russian) encoding - Windows charsets
Cyrillic ligatures
Serbian letters
bs:Nj
hr:Nj
sh:NJ