Nje, Nye, or Ñe (Њ њ; italics: ''Њ њ'') is a letter of the

Cyrillic script The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...

. It is a

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of the Cyrillic letters En and

Soft Sign The soft sign (Ь ь; italics: ) is a letter in the Cyrillic script that is used in various Slavic languages. In Old Church Slavonic, it represented a short or reduced front vowel. However, over time, the specific vowel sound it denote ...

.Maretić, Tomislav. ''Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika''. 1899. It was invented by

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for use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph . It corresponds to the

digraph Digraph, often misspelled as diagraph, may refer to: * Digraph (orthography), a pair of characters used together to represent a single sound, such as "nq" in Hmong RPA * Ligature (writing), the joining of two letters as a single glyph, such as " ...

Gaj's Latin alphabet Gaj's Latin alphabet ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Gajeva latinica, separator=" / ", Гајева латиница}, ), also known as ( sr-Cyrl, абецеда, ) or ( sr-Cyrl, гајица, link=no, ), is the form of the Latin script used for writing all ...

for

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. It is today used in

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, variants of

when written in Cyrillic ( Bosnian, Montenegrin, and

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and Udege, where it represents a

palatal nasal The voiced palatal nasal is a type of consonant used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a lowercase letter ''n'' with a leftward-pointing tail protruding from the bottom ...

, 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 Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of ...

- a Czech, Turkmen, and Slovak letter *Ņ ņ : Latin letter N with cedilla - a Latvian letter *Љ љ :

Cyrillic letter Lje The Cyrillic 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 countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern E ...

*Ԩ ԩ : Cyrillic letter En with left hook - a letter uses in Orok language. *Ǌ ǋ ǌ : Compatibility Unicode characters

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

Related letters and other similar characters

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