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Ń (minuscule: ń) is a letter formed by putting an acute accent over the letter N.

It represents in the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet; the alphabets of Apache, Navajo, Polish, Karakalpak, Kashubian, Silesian, Wymysorys and the Sorbian languages; and the romanization of Khmer and Macedonian. This is the same sound as Spanish and Galician ñ, Czech and Slovak ň, Serbo-Croatian and Albanian nj, Italian and French gn, Hungarian and Catalan ny, Latvian and Livonian ņ, and Portuguese nh.

In Yoruba, it represents a syllabic /n/ with a high tone, and it often connects a pronoun to a verb. For example, when using the pronoun for "I" with the verb for "to eat", the resulting expression is mo ń jeun.

Usage

Polish

In Polish, it appears directly after in the alphabet, but no Polish word begins with this letter, because it may not appear before a vowel (the letter may appear only before a consonant or in the word-final position). In the former case, a digraph is used to indicate . If the vowel following is , only one appears.

Examples

(April)
(elephant)
(hand)
(disgrace)
(sun)

Cantonese

It is used in the Yale romanisation of Cantonese when the nasal syllable has a rising tone, as in and .

Lule Sami

Traditionally has been used in Lule Sami to represent . However, in modern orthography, such as signage in Lule Sami by the Swedish government, is used instead.

Kazakh

In Kazakh, it was proposed in 2018 to replace the Cyrillic Ң by this Latin alphabet and represents . The replacement suggestion was modified to Ŋ in 2019; and in 2021, it was suggested to replace it with Ñ.

Karakalpak

Ń/ń is the 19th letter of Karakalpak alphabet and represents .

Macedonian

Ń is used in Macedonian for the scientific romanisation of the Cyrillic letter ⟨њ⟩, representing /ɲ/, although the digraph ⟨nj⟩ is much more common. This, alongside ⟨ĺ⟩ and ⟨lj⟩, is one of the only two cases where there are two accepted Latin versions of a Cyrillic letter in the scientific romanisation, as per the orthography.

Computer use

HTML characters and Unicode code point numbers:

Ń: &#323; or &#x143; – U+0143
ń: &#324; or &#x144; – U+0144

In Unicode, Ń and ń are located the "Latin Extended-A" block.

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