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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


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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 ...


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IBM EBCDIC (Cyrillic Russian) encoding - Windows charsets
Cyrillic ligatures Serbian letters {{Cyrillic-alphabet-stub bs:Nj hr:Nj sh:NJ