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Nje (Њ њ; italics: ''Њ њ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking co ...
. It is a
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of the Cyrillic letters En and
Soft Sign The soft sign (Ь, ь, italics ) also known as the front yer, front jer, or er malak (lit. "small er") is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Old Church Slavonic, it represented a short (or "reduced") front vowel. As with its companion, the b ...
.Maretić, Tomislav. ''Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika''. 1899. 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 Gaj's Latin alphabet ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Gajeva latinica, separator=" / ", Гајева латиница}, ), also known as ( sh-Cyrl, абецеда, ) or ( sh-Cyrl, гајица, link=no, ), is the form of the Latin script used for writing Serb ...
for
Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia an ...
. It is today used in Macedonian, variants of
Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia an ...
when written in Cyrillic ( Bosnian, Montenegrin, and Serbian),
Itelmen The Itelmens ( Itelmen: Итәнмән, russian: Ительмены) are an indigenous ethnic group of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. The Itelmen language is distantly related to Chukchi and Koryak, forming the Chukotko-Kamchatkan langu ...
and Udege, where it represents a palatal nasal , similar to the in "canyon" (cf. Polish , Czech and Slovak , Latvian ⟨ ņ⟩, Galician and Spanish , Occitan, Portuguese and Vietnamese , Catalan and Hungarian , and Italian and French ). Nje is commonly transliterated as but it is also transliterated or


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


Computing codes


See also

* Iotation


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IBM EBCDIC (Cyrillic Russian) encoding - Windows charsets
Cyrillic ligatures Serbian letters bs:Nj hr:Nj sh:NJ