| Nje | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [ ɲ ] |
Nje, Nye, or Ñe (Њ њ; italics: Њ њ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
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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, ň, ñ, or ņ.
