Nje
Nje, Nye, or Ñe is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters En and Soft Sign. It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph. It corresponds to the digraph in Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian.
It is today used in Macedonian, variants of Serbo-Croatian when written in Cyrillic, Itelmen and Udege, where it represents a palatal nasal, similar to the in "canyon".
Nje is commonly transliterated as nj but it is also transliterated ń, ň, ñ, or ņ.
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
- Ԋ ԋ - Cyrillic letter Komi Nje
- Ԩ ԩ : Cyrillic letter En with left hook - an Uilta letter
- NJ Nj nj : Unicode compatibility characters
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