Ń (

minuscule Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...

: ń) is a letter formed by putting an

acute accent The acute accent (), , is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. For the most commonly encountered uses of the accent in the Latin and Greek alphabets, precomposed ch ...

over the letter N. In the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet; the alphabets of

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...

Kashubian Kashubian can refer to: * Pertaining to Kashubia, a region of north-central Poland * Kashubians, an ethnic group of north-central Poland * Kashubian language See also *Kashubian alphabet The Kashubian or Cassubian alphabet (''kaszëbsczi alf ...

Wymysorys Wymysorys (, or ), also known as Vilamovian or Wilamowicean, is a West Germanic language spoken by the ethnic Vilamovian minority in the small town of Wilamowice, Poland ( in Wymysorys, ), on the border between Silesia and Lesser Poland, near ...

and the Sorbian languages; and the romanization of Khmer, it represents , 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). In the former case, a digraph ''ni'' is used to indicate a palatal (or rather alveolo-palatal) ''n''. If the vowel following is ''i'', only one ''i'' appears.

Examples

* (''April'') * hańba (''disgrace'') * niebo (''sky, heaven'') * jedzenie (''food'') * dłoń (''hand'') * słońce (''sun'')

Lule Sami

In Lule Sami it represents / ŋ/. It is used in the Yale romanisation of Cantonese when the nasal syllable /ŋ̩/ has a rising tone.

Kazakh

Kazakh Kazakh, Qazaq or Kazakhstani may refer to: * Someone or something related to Kazakhstan *Kazakhs, an ethnic group *Kazakh language *The Kazakh Khanate * Kazakh cuisine * Qazakh Rayon, Azerbaijan *Qazax, Azerbaijan *Kazakh Uyezd, administrative dis ...

, it was proposed in 2018 to replace the Cyrillic Ң by this Latin alphabet and represents / ŋ/. The replace suggestion has modified to Ŋ in 2019; and in 2021, it was suggested to replace with Ñ.

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.

References

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