# Nje

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{{short description|Cyrillic letter}}
{{About|the Cyrillic letter|its Latin-script equivalent|Nj (digraph)|the jazz band|The NJE|other uses|NJE (disambiguation){{!}}NJE}}
{{Infobox grapheme
| script = [Cyrillic](/source/Cyrillic)
| type = [Alphabet](/source/Alphabet)
| typedesc = ic
| name = Nje
| image = Cyrillic letter Nje - uppercase and lowercase.svg
| imageclass = skin-invert-image
| imagealt = 
| phonemes = [{{IPA link|ɲ}}]
| number = 
| fam1 = 
| equivalents = Nj nj
| letter = Њ њ
| language = [Serbian](/source/Serbian_language)<br>[Itelmen](/source/Itelmen_language)<br>[Udege](/source/Udege_language)
}}

thumb|class=skin-invert-image|Handwritten cursive form of ''Nje''
'''Nje''' (Њ&nbsp;њ; italics: <span style="font-family: times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: larger">''Њ&nbsp;њ''</span>) is a letter of the [Cyrillic script](/source/Cyrillic_script).

It is a [ligature](/source/Typographic_ligature) of the Cyrillic letters [En](/source/En_(Cyrillic)) {{angbr|н}} and [Soft Sign](/source/Soft_Sign) {{angbr|ь}}.<ref name="Maretić">Maretić, Tomislav. ''Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika''. 1899.</ref> It was invented by [Vuk Stefanović Karadžić](/source/Vuk_Stefanovi%C4%87_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87) for [Serbian Cyrillic](/source/Serbian_Cyrillic) use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph {{angbr|нь}}.<ref name="Maretić" /> It corresponds to the [digraph](/source/Digraph_(orthography)) {{angbr|[nj](/source/Nj_(letter))}} in [Gaj's Latin alphabet](/source/Gaj's_Latin_alphabet) for [Serbo-Croatian](/source/Serbo-Croatian).<ref name="Maretić" />

It is today used in [Serbian](/source/Serbian_language), [Itelmen](/source/Itelmen_language) and [Udege](/source/Udege_language), where it represents a [palatal nasal](/source/palatal_nasal) {{IPA|/ɲ/}}, similar to the {{angbr|ny}} in "ca'''ny'''on" (cf. Polish {{angbr|[ń](/source/%C5%84)}}, Czech and Slovak {{angbr|[ň](/source/%C5%88)}}, Latvian ⟨[ņ](/source/Cedilla)⟩, Galician, Spanish and Filipino {{angbr|[ñ](/source/%C3%B1)}}, Occitan, Portuguese and Vietnamese {{angbr|[nh](/source/nh_(digraph))}}, Catalan and Hungarian {{angbr|[ny](/source/ny_(digraph))}}, and Italian and French {{angbr|[gn](/source/gn_(digraph))}}).

Nje is commonly transliterated as {{lang|mk|'''nj'''}} but it is also transliterated {{lang|mk|'''ń'''}}, {{lang|mk|'''ň'''}}, {{lang|es|'''ñ'''}}, or {{lang|mk|'''ņ'''}}.

==Related letters and other similar characters==
*Н н : [Cyrillic letter En](/source/%D0%9D)
*Ь ь : [Cyrillic letter Soft sign](/source/%D0%AC)
*Ñ ñ : [Latin letter N with tilde](/source/%C3%91) - a Filipino, Spanish, and Tetum letter
*Ń ń : [Latin letter N with acute](/source/%C5%83) - a Kashubian, Polish, and Sorbian letter
*Ň ň : [Latin letter N with caron](/source/%C5%87) - a Czech, Turkmen, and Slovak letter
*Ņ ņ : [Latin letter N with cedilla](/source/%C5%85) - a Latvian letter
*Љ љ : [Cyrillic letter Lje](/source/%D0%89) 
*Ԋ ԋ - Cyrillic letter [Komi Nje](/source/%D4%8A)
*Ԩ ԩ : [Cyrillic letter En with left hook](/source/%D4%A8) - an [Uilta](/source/Uilta_language) letter
*NJ Nj nj&nbsp;: Unicode compatibility characters

{{anchor|Encodings}}

==Computing codes==

{{charmap
|040A|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter Nje
|045A|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter Nje
|map2=Code page 855 |map2char1=93 |map2char2=92
|map4=[Windows-1251](/source/Windows-1251) |map4char1=8C |map4char2=9C
|map5=[ISO-8859-5](/source/ISO-8859-5) |map5char1=AA |map5char2=FA
|map6=[Macintosh Cyrillic](/source/Macintosh_Cyrillic_encoding) |map6char1=BE |map6char2=BF
|map7=[IBM880](/source/DKOI) |map7char1=70 |map7char2=52}}

==See also==
*[Iotation](/source/Iotation)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Wiktionary-inline|Њ}}
*{{Wiktionary-inline|њ}}
*[https://wutils.com/encodings/ibm880 IBM EBCDIC (Cyrillic Russian) encoding - Windows charsets]

{{Cyrillic navbox}}

Category:Cyrillic ligatures
Category:Serbian letters

{{Cyrillic-alphabet-stub}}

[bs:Nj](/source/bs%3ANj)
[hr:Nj](/source/hr%3ANj)
[sh:NJ](/source/sh%3ANJ)

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