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Cyrillic letter Nje
Phonetic usage:/ ɲ/
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
А А̀ А̂ А̄ Ӓ Б В Г
Ґ Д Ђ Ѓ Е Ѐ Е̄ Е̂
Ё Є Ж З З́ Ѕ И І
Ї Ѝ И̂ Ӣ Й Ј К
Л Љ М Н Њ О О̀ О̂
Ō Ӧ П Р С С́ Т Ћ
Ќ У У̀ У̂ Ӯ Ў Ӱ Ф
Х Ц Ч Џ Ш Щ Ъ
Ъ̀ Ы Ь Ѣ Э Ю Ю̀ Я
Я̀
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ А̊ А̃ Ӓ̄ Ӕ Ә Ә́ Ә̃
Ӛ В̌ Ԝ Г̑ Г̇ Г̣ Г̌ Г̂
Г̆ Г̈ г̊ Ҕ Ғ Ӻ Ғ̌
ғ̊ Ӷ Д́ Д̌ Д̈ Д̣ Д̆
Ӗ Е̃ Ё̄ Є̈ Ԑ Ԑ̈ Җ Ӝ
Ӂ Ж̣ Ҙ Ӟ З̌ З̣ З̆ Ӡ
И̃ Ӥ Ҋ Қ Ӄ Ҡ Ҟ Ҝ
К̣ к̊ қ̊ Ԛ Л́ Ӆ Ԯ
Ԓ Л̈ Ӎ Н́ Ӊ Ң Ԩ
Ӈ Ҥ О̆ О̃ Ӧ̄ Ө Ө̄ Ө́
Ө̆ Ӫ Ԥ П̈ Ҏ Р̌ С̌ Ҫ
С̣ С̱ Т́ Т̈ Т̌ Т̇ Т̣ Ҭ
У̃ Ӳ У̊ Ӱ̄ Ұ Ү Ү́
Х̣ Х̱ Х̮ Х̑ Х̌ Ҳ Ӽ х̊
Ӿ ӿ̊ Һ Һ̈ Ԧ Ц̌ Ц̈ Ҵ
Ҷ Ҷ̣ Ӵ Ӌ Ҹ Ч̇ Ч̣
Ҽ Ҿ Ш̣ Ы̆ Ы̄ Ӹ
Ҍ Ҩ Э̆ Э̄ Э̇ Ӭ Ӭ́ Ӭ̄
Ю̆ Ю̈ Ю̄ Я̆ Я̄ Я̈ Ӏ ʼ
ˮ
Archaic or unused letters
А̨ Б̀ Б̣ Б̱ В̀ Г̀ Г̧
Г̄ Г̓ Г̆ Ҕ̀ Ҕ̆ Ԁ Д̓
Д̀ Д̨ Ԃ Е̇ Е̨
Ж̀ Ж̑ Џ̆
Ꚅ̆ З̀ З̑ Ԅ Ԇ
Ԫ І̂ І̣ І̨
Ј̵ Ј̃ К̓ К̀ К̆ Ӄ̆
К̑ К̇ К̈ К̄ Ԟ К̂
Л̀ Ԡ Ԉ Л̑ Л̇ Ԕ
М̀ М̃ Н̀ Н̄ Н̧
Н̃ Ԋ Ԣ Н̡ Ѻ
П̓ П̀
П́ Ҧ П̧ П̑ Ҁ Ԛ̆ Р́
Р̀ Р̃ Ԗ С̀ С̈ Ԍ Ҫ̓
Т̓ Т̀ Ԏ Т̑ Т̧
Ꚍ̆ ОУ У̇
У̨ ꙋ́ Ф̑ Ф̓ Х́ Х̀ Х̆ Х̇
Х̧ Х̾ Х̓ һ̱ Ѡ Ѽ
Ѿ Ц̀ Ц́ Ц̓ Ꚏ̆
Ч́ Ч̀ Ч̆ Ч̑ Ч̓
Ԭ Ꚇ̆ Ҽ̆ Ш̀
Ш̆ Ш̑ Щ̆ Ꚗ̆ Ъ̄ Ъ̈
Ъ̈̄ Ы̂ Ы̃ Ѣ́ Ѣ̈ Ѣ̆
Э̨ Э̂ Ю̂
Я̈ Я̂ Я̨ Ԙ Ѥ Ѧ Ѫ
Ѩ Ѭ Ѯ Ѱ Ѳ Ѵ
Ѷ
Handwritten cursive form of Nje

Nje (Њ њ; italics: Њ њ; also called nye) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

It is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters En ⟨н⟩ and Soft Sign ⟨ь⟩. [1] It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph ⟨нь⟩. [1] It corresponds to the digraph nj in Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian. [1]

It is today used in Macedonian, variants of Serbo-Croatian when written in Cyrillic ( Bosnian, Montenegrin, and Serbian), Itelmen and Udege, where it represents a palatal nasal /ɲ/, similar to the ⟨ny⟩ in "canyon" (cf. Polish ń, Czech and Slovak ň, Latvian ⟨ ņ⟩, Galician and Spanish ñ, Occitan, Portuguese and Vietnamese nh, Catalan and Hungarian ny, and Italian and French gn).

Nje is commonly transliterated as nj but it is also transliterated ń or ņ.

Related letters and other similar characters

Computing codes

Character information
Preview Њ њ
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER NJE CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER NJE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 1034 U+040A 1114 U+045A
UTF-8 208 138 D0 8A 209 154 D1 9A
Numeric character reference Њ Њ њ њ
Named character reference Њ њ
Code page 855 147 93 146 92
Windows-1251 140 8C 156 9C
ISO-8859-5 170 AA 250 FA
Macintosh Cyrillic 190 BE 191 BF
IBM880 112 70 82 52

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika. 1899.

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