Nj (digraph)

ǋ is a letter present in South Slavic languages such as the Latin-alphabet version of Serbo-Croatian and in romanised Macedonian. It is also used in the Albanian alphabet. In all of these languages, it represents the palatal nasal, like the pronunciation of in Dom Pérignon. For example, the Serbo-Croatian word konj is pronounced.
In Serbo-Croatian, the digraph is treated as a single letter, and therefore it has its own place in the alphabet, takes up only one space in crossword puzzles, and is written in line in vertical text. However, it does not have its own key in standard computer keyboards as it is almost never represented by a single character.
Other letters and digraphs of the Latin alphabet used for spelling this sound are ń, ň, ñ, nh, gn, ņ, and ny. The Cyrillic alphabet also includes a specific symbol, constructed in a similar fashion as nj: Њ.
In Faroese, it generally represents, although in some words it represents, like in banjo.
Ljudevit Gaj first used this digraph in 1830.
It is also used in some languages of Africa and Oceania where it represents a prenazalized voiced postalveolar affricate or fricative, or. In Malagasy, it represents.
The digraph Nj is encoded in Unicode at 3 code points.
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