Cyrillic letter Nje
Phonetic usage:	[?]
The Cyrillic script
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Nje (? ?; italics: ? ?) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

It is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters En ⟨?⟩ and Soft Sign ⟨?⟩.^[1] It was invented by Vuk Stefanovi? Karad?i? for use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph ⟨⟩.^[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 /?/, similar to the ⟨ny⟩ in "canyon" (cf. Polish ⟨?⟩, Czech and Slovak ⟨?⟩, Galician and Spanish ⟨ñ⟩, Occitan, Portuguese and Vietnamese ⟨nh⟩, Catalan and Hungarian ⟨ny⟩, and Italian and French ⟨gn⟩).

Related letters and other similar characters

• ? ? : Cyrillic letter En
• ? ? : Cyrillic letter Soft sign
• Ñ ñ : Latin letter N with tilde
• ? ? : Latin letter N with acute
• ? ? : Latin letter N with caron
• ? ? : Cyrillic letter Lje

Computing codes

See also

• Iotation

References

External links

• The dictionary definition of ? at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of ? at Wiktionary