Ꞥ (lowercase ꞥ) is a letter derived from the combination of the Latin letter N and a stroke diacritic. It was used in

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until 1921, when it was replaced by Ņ (N with a

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Diagonal strokes usage Writing system ꞥ (lower case) Spoken language Latvian history develop Ꞥ other This entry contains the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbol. For an introduction guide to the IPA symbol, see Help:IPA. For the difference between [], // and ⟨⟩, please refer to IPA§ Square Brackets and Transcription Delimiters. Ꞥ (N with an oblique stroke; lowercase ꞥ) is a letter composed of the Latin letter N with a diacritic mark with an oblique stroke. It was used in Latvian orthography as the letter representing the hard palatal nasal /ɲ/ until it was replaced by the letter Ņ (N with a soft note) in 1921. contents 1 note value 2 Representation in the international code 3 References 4 Further reading 5 see 6 External links Tone valueThe sound value usually means the hard palatal nasal /ɲ/; it is also used to mean the soft palatal nasal /ŋ/. Representation in the international code It is expressed in the international code as: Characters Ꞥ ꞥ Unicode name Uppercase Latin letter ꞥ (n with oblique stroke) Lowercase Latin letter ꞥ (n with oblique stroke) Code Decimal Hexadecimal Decimal Hexadecimal Unicode 42916 U+A7A4 42917 U+A7A5 UTF-8 234 158 164 EA 9E A4 234 158 165 EA 9E A5 Character value reference Ꞥ Ꞥ ꞥ ꞥ References German NB, Proposal to encode 10 Latin letters for pre-1921 Latvian orthography, 30 April 2009. (copie en ligne) German NB, ''Proposal to encode 10 Latin letters for pre-1921 Latvian orthography'', 30 April 2009

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