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Ń (minuscule:ń) is a letter formed by putting anacute accent over the letterN.
It represents/ɲ/ in theBelarusian Łacinka alphabet; the alphabets ofApache,Navajo,Polish,Karakalpak,Kashubian,Silesian,Wymysorys and theSorbian languages; and theromanization ofKhmer andMacedonian.[1] This is the same sound as Spanish and Galicianñ, Czech and Slovakň, Serbo-Croatian and Albaniannj, Italian and Frenchgn, Hungarian and Catalanny, Latvian and Livonianņ, and Portuguesenh.
InYoruba, it represents asyllabic /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 ismo ń jeun.
In Polish, it appears directly after⟨n⟩ in the alphabet, but no Polish word begins with this letter, because it may not appear before avowel (the letter may appear only before aconsonant or in the word-final position).[2] In the former case, adigraph⟨ni⟩ is used to indicate/ɲ/. If the vowel following is/i/, only one⟨i⟩ appears.
It is used in theYale romanisation of Cantonese when the nasal syllable/ŋ̩/ has a rising tone, as in⟨ńg⟩/ŋ̩˧˥/ and⟨ńgh⟩/ŋ̩˩˧/.
Traditionally⟨Ń⟩ has been used inLule Sami to represent/ŋ/. However, in modern orthography, such as signage in Lule Sami by the Swedish government,⟨Ŋ⟩ is used instead.
InKazakh, it was proposed in 2018 to replace the CyrillicҢ by thisLatin alphabet and represents/ŋ/. The replacement suggestion was modified toŊ in 2019; and in 2021, it was suggested to replace it withÑ.
Ń/ń is the 19th letter ofKarakalpak alphabet and represents/ŋ/.
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.
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InUnicode, Ń and ń are located the "Latin Extended-A" block.