Nje, Nye, or Ñe (Њ њ; italics:
''Њ њ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic 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, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
.
It is a
ligature Ligature may refer to:
Language
* Ligature (writing), a combination of two or more letters into a single symbol (typography and calligraphy)
* Ligature (grammar), a morpheme that links two words
Medicine
* Ligature (medicine), a piece of suture us ...
of the Cyrillic letters
En and
Soft Sign .
[Maretić, Tomislav. ''Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika''. 1899.] It was invented by
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
VUK or Vuk may refer to:
*Vuk (name), South Slavic given name
** Vuk, Ban of Bosnia (), a member of the Kotromanić dynasty
** Vuk Karadžić (1787–1864), Serbian language reformer and folklorist, often referred to simply as Vuk
* ''Vuk'' (film) ...
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 ( sr-Cyrl, абецеда, ) or ( sr-Cyrl, гајица, link=no, ), is the form of the Latin script used for writing all ...
for
Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian ( / ), also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually i ...
.
It is today used in
Macedonian, variants of
Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian ( / ), also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually i ...
when written in Cyrillic (
Bosnian,
Montenegrin, and
Serbian),
Itelmen 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
*Ԩ ԩ :
Cyrillic letter En with left hook - a letter uses in Orok language.
*NJ Nj nj : Compatibility Unicode characters
Computing codes
See also
*
Iotation
In Slavic languages, iotation (, ) is a form of palatalization that occurs when a consonant comes into contact with the palatal approximant from the succeeding phoneme. The is represented by iota (ι) in the early Cyrillic alphabet and the Gre ...
References
External links
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IBM EBCDIC (Cyrillic Russian) encoding - Windows charsets
Cyrillic ligatures
Serbian letters
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