Ꞑ, ꞑ (''
N with
descender
In typography and handwriting, a descender is the portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font.
For example, in the letter ''y'', the descender is the "tail", or that portion of the diagonal line which lies below the ''v'' c ...
'') is a letter of the
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered with the exception of extensions (such as diacritics), it used to write English and th ...
, used in several
New Turkic Alphabet orthographies in 1930s (for instance,
Tatar alphabet
Two scripts are currently used for the Tatar language: Arabic (in China) and Cyrillic (in Russia and Kazakhstan).
History of Tatar writing
Before 1928, the Tatar language was usually written using alphabets based on the Arabic alphabet: İske ...
), as well as in the 1990s orthographies invented in attempts to restore the Latin alphabet for the
Tatar language and the
Chechen language.
In the majority of languages this letter represented a
velar nasal
The voiced velar nasal, also known as agma, from the Greek word for 'fragment', is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It is the sound of ''ng'' in English ''sing'' as well as ''n'' before velar consonants as in ''Englis ...
(as in English ''singing'').
Due to problems with the display of this letter in phones and computers, it is sometimes replaced by a similar letter
Ŋ ŋ.
History
The letter appeared in late 1920s in the
New Turkic Alphabet, however it was borrowed by some other non-Turkic peoples of the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
during the
Latinisation campaign. In the 1990s the letter was used in
Chechen Latin alphabet, in 2000s it was used in the Tatar Latin alphabet, both of them however are not in wide use now. In the Chechen alphabet the majuscule looked similar to minuscule, but has a larger size.
[Lepiev A.S., Lepiev İ.A., Türkçe-Çeçençe sözlük, Turkoyꞑ-noxçiyꞑ doşam, Ankara, 2003]
Unicode
In
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, wh ...
, the letter is in the
Latin Extended-D
Latin Extended-D is a Unicode block containing Latin characters for phonetic, Mayanist, and Medieval transcription and notation systems. 89 of the characters in this block are for medieval characters proposed by the Medieval Unicode Font Initiati ...
block encoded at and .
See also
Similar Latin letters:
*
Ŋ ŋ
*
Ƞ ƞ
*
Ɲ ɲ
*
Ñ ñ
*
Ň ň
*
Ņ ņ
*
ɳ
*
ɱ
*
ᶇ
Similar Cyrillic letters:
*
Ӈ ӈ
*
Ң ң
*
Ӊ ӊ
*
Ҥ ҥ
*
Ԩ ԩ
References
External links
Quivira font Currently one of the few that render the letter correctly.
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Letters with descender (diacritic)
Latin-script letters