Ń
Ń is a letter formed by putting an acute accent over the letter N.
It represents in the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet; the alphabets of Apache, Navajo, Polish, Karakalpak, Kashubian, Silesian, Wymysorys and the Sorbian languages; and the romanization of Khmer and Macedonian. This is the same sound as Spanish and Galician ñ, Czech and Slovak ň, Serbo-Croatian and Albanian nj, Italian and French gn, Hungarian and Catalan ny, Latvian and Livonian ņ, 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 in the alphabet, but no Polish word begins with this letter, because it may not appear before a vowel. In the former case, a digraph is used to indicate. If the vowel following is, only one appears.Examples
- słoń
- dłoń
- hańba
- słońce
Cantonese
Lule Sami
Traditionally has been used in Lule Sami to represent. However, in modern orthography, such as signage in Lule Sami by the Swedish government, is used instead.Kazakh
In Kazakh, it was proposed in 2018 to replace the Cyrillic Ң by this Latin alphabet and represents. The replacement suggestion was modified to Ŋ in 2019; and in 2021, it was suggested to replace it with Ñ.Karakalpak
Ń/ń is the 19th letter of Karakalpak alphabet and represents.Macedonian
Ń is used in Macedonian for the scientific romanisation of the Cyrillic letter ⟨њ⟩, representing /ɲ/, although the digraph ⟨nj⟩ is much more common. This, alongside ⟨ĺ⟩ and ⟨lj⟩, is one of the only two cases where there are two accepted Latin versions of a Cyrillic letter in the scientific romanisation, as per the orthography.Computer use
HTML characters and Unicode code point numbers:- Ń: Ń or Ń - U+0143
- ń: ń or ń - U+0144