Nje

Cyrillic letter Nje
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
АБВГҐДЂ
ЃЕЀЁЄЖЗ
З́ЅИЍІЇЙ
ЈКЛЉМНЊ
ОПРСС́ТЋ
ЌУЎФХЦЧ
ЏШЩЪЫЬЭ
ЮЯ
Non-Slavic letters
ӐА̄А̊А̃ӒӒ̄Ә
Ә́Ә̃ӚӔҒГ̧Г̑
Г̄ҔӺӶԀԂ
ԪԬӖЕ̄Е̃
Ё̄Є̈ӁҖӜԄ
ҘӞԐԐ̈ӠԆӢ
И̃ҊӤҚӃҠҞ
ҜԞԚӅԮԒԠ
ԈԔӍӉҢԨӇ
ҤԢԊО̆О̃О̄Ӧ
ӨӨ̄ӪҨԤҦР̌
ҎԖҪԌҬ
ԎУ̃ӮӰӰ́Ӳ
ҮҮ́ҰХ̑ҲӼӾ
ҺҺ̈ԦҴҶ
ӴӋҸҼ
ҾЫ̆Ы̄ӸҌЭ̆Э̄
Э̇ӬӬ́Ӭ̄Ю̆Ю̈Ю̈́
Ю̄Я̆Я̄Я̈ԘԜӀ
Archaic letters
ҀѺ
ОУѠѼѾ
ѢѤѦ
ѪѨѬѮ
ѰѲѴѶ

Nje њ; italics: Њ њ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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), and Itelmen, where it represents a palatal nasal /ɲ/, similar to the ny in "canyon" (cf. Polish ń, Czech and Slovak ň, Spanish ñ).

Computing codes

Character Њ њ
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER NJE CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER NJE
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 1034 U+040A 1114 U+045A
UTF-8 208 138 D0 8A 209 154 D1 9A
Numeric character reference Њ Њ њ њ
Code page 855 147 93 146 92
Windows-1251 140 8C 156 9C
ISO-8859-5 170 AA 250 FA
Macintosh Cyrillic 190 BE 191 BF

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika. 1899.


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