Ń

Ń (minuscule: ń) is a letter formed by putting an acute accent over the letter N. In the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet; the alphabets of Polish, Kashubian, Wymysorys and the Sorbian languages; and the romanization of Khmer, it represents /ɲ/,{{ which is the same as Czech and Slovak ň, Serbo-Croatian and Albanian nj, Spanish and Galician ñ, Italian and French gn, Hungarian and Catalan ny, 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

See also: Polish orthography § Palatal and palatalized consonants

In Polish, it appears directly after ⟨n⟩ 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 ⟨ni⟩ is used to indicate /ɲ/. If the vowel following is /i/, only one ⟨i⟩ appears.

Examples

• kwiecień  (April)
• hańba (disgrace)
• niebo (sky, heaven)
• jedzenie (food)
• dłoń (hand)
• słońce (sun)

Cantonese

It is used in the Yale romanisation of Cantonese when the nasal syllable /ŋ̩/ has a rising tone.

Lule Sami

Traditionally ⟨Ń⟩ has been used in Lule Sami to represent /ŋ/. However in modern orthography, such as signage in Lule Sami by the Swedish government, ⟨Ŋ⟩ is used instead.

Kazakh

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

Computer use

HTML characters and Unicode code point numbers:

• Ń: Ń or Ń – U+0143
• ń: ń or ń – U+0144

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

See also

• Acute accent