| N with descender | |
|---|---|
| Ꞑ ꞑ | |
| (See below) | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Latin script |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Yañalif |
| Sound values | [ŋ] |
| History | |
| Variations | (See below) |
| Other | |
| Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
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Ꞑ, ꞑ (N withdescender) is a letter of theLatin alphabet, used in severalNew Turkic alphabet orthographies in 1930s (for instance,Tatar alphabet), as well as in the 1990s orthographies invented in attempts to restore the Latin alphabet for theTatar language and theChechen language.
In the majority of languages this letter represented avelar nasal (as in Englishsinging).
Due to problems with the display of this letter in phones and computers, it is sometimes replaced by a similar letterŊ ŋ. Free fonts that display it correctly includeQuivira,Gentium andAndika.
The letter appeared in late 1920s in theNew Turkic Alphabet, however it was borrowed by some other non-Turkic peoples of theSoviet Union during theLatinisation campaign. In the 1990s the letter was used inChechen Latin alphabet, in 2000s it was used in the Tatar Latin alphabet,[1][2] both of them however are not in wide use now. In the Chechen alphabet the majuscule looked similar to minuscule, but has a larger size.[3]
InUnicode, the letter is in theLatin Extended-D block encoded atU+A790 ꞐLATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH DESCENDER andU+A791 ꞑLATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH DESCENDER.
Similar Latin letters:
Similar Cyrillic letters:
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