Ņ

Ņ U+0145, Ņ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH CEDILLA Composition: N [U+004E] + ◌̧ [U+0327] ← ń [U+0144] Latin Extended-A ņ → [U+0146]

See also: N‌̧, N̦, and Appendix:Variations of "n"

Most typefaces display this character as N with a centered comma, but some orthographies prefer a connected cedilla shifted to one of the legs, N‌̧.

Latvian

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Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɲ]

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Letter

Ņ (upper case, lower case ņ)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Latvian alphabet, called eņ and written in the Latin script.

See also

• Letters of the Latvian alphabet:

  burti: Aa, Āā, Bb, Cc, Čč, Dd, Ee, Ēē, Ff, Gg, Ģģ, Hh, Ii, Īī, Jj, Kk, Ķķ, Ll, Ļļ, Mm, Nn, Ņņ, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Ūū, Vv, Zz, Žž