{{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 | type = 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<br>Itelmen<br>Udege }}
thumb|class=skin-invert-image|Handwritten cursive form of ''Nje'' '''Nje''' (Њ њ; italics: <span style="font-family: times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: larger">''Њ њ''</span>) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters En {{angbr|н}} and 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 for Serbian Cyrillic use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph {{angbr|нь}}.<ref name="Maretić" /> It corresponds to the digraph {{angbr|nj}} in Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian.<ref name="Maretić" />
It is today used in Serbian, Itelmen and Udege, where it represents a palatal nasal {{IPA|/ɲ/}}, similar to the {{angbr|ny}} in "ca'''ny'''on" (cf. Polish {{angbr|ń}}, Czech and Slovak {{angbr|ň}}, Latvian ⟨ņ⟩, Galician, Spanish and Filipino {{angbr|ñ}}, Occitan, Portuguese and Vietnamese {{angbr|nh}}, Catalan and Hungarian {{angbr|ny}}, and Italian and French {{angbr|gn}}).
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 *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 - a Czech, Turkmen, and Slovak letter *Ņ ņ : Latin letter N with cedilla - a Latvian letter *Љ љ : Cyrillic letter Lje *Ԋ ԋ - Cyrillic letter Komi Nje *Ԩ ԩ : Cyrillic letter En with left hook - an Uilta letter *NJ Nj nj : Unicode compatibility characters
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==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 |map4char1=8C |map4char2=9C |map5=ISO-8859-5 |map5char1=AA |map5char2=FA |map6=Macintosh Cyrillic |map6char1=BE |map6char2=BF |map7=IBM880 |map7char1=70 |map7char2=52}}
==See also== *Iotation
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Wiktionary-inline|Њ}} *{{Wiktionary-inline|њ}} *[https://wutils.com/encodings/ibm880 IBM EBCDIC (Cyrillic Russian) encoding - Windows charsets]
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