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Ny is a digraph in a number of languages such asCatalan,Ganda,Filipino/Tagalog,Hungarian,Swahili andMalay. In most of these languages, including all of the ones named above, it denotes thepalatal nasal (/ɲ/). To represent the palatal nasal in other languages, the letter nj is used, such as in Albanian and the countries using Gaj's Latin alphabet and the countries that make up the former Yugoslavia.
It has had widespread use for languages ofWest Africa, though in some countries, the IPA letterɲ is now used.
It is sometimes used in modernSpanish whereñ cannot be used, such as in earlier computer programming orInternet domain names.[1]
The writing of the palatal nasal inAragonese has been a matter of debate since the first orthographic codification of the language (grafía de Uesca) in 1987 by theConsello d'a Fabla Aragonesa at a convention inHuesca. Medieval Aragonese had used several different digraphs, but the two most common spellings used wereñ (as in Spanish) orny (as in Catalan).Ñ was the one chosen and has been used in almost all texts of the last decades, but the subject remained controversial, and some writers continued to promote the use of the digraphny. The use ofny was also proposed in an alternativeAragonese orthography, thegrafía SLA devised in 2004 by theSociedat de Lingüistica Aragonesa in 2004. According to the 2010Orthographic Proposal of theAcademia de l'Aragonés, created in 2006, the palatal nasal phoneme should be written asny.[2] The 2023 academic orthography of Aragonese allows both spellings according to personal preference.[3]
InCatalan,ny is not considered a single letter but a consonantal digraph (n followed byy) to represent/ɲ/. The lettery, in Catalan, is used only to formny (except in some foreign words) and has no other purpose.
It is found in any position in a word: at the beginning (nyap "rubbish",nyaufar "to dent"), in intervocalic position (Catalunya "Catalonia";canya "reed", "steem") and at the end of a word (any "year",estany "lagoon",seny "sense").
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Ny is the twenty-third letter of theHungarianalphabet. Its name iseny (/ɛɲ/), and it represents the palatal nasal (/ɲ/). Even mere sequences ofn andy that represent different sounds are considered instances of this letter; this holds true inacronyms as well.
Below are examples of Hungarian words that use the letterny along with their English translations:
InMalaysian andIndonesian,ny represents thepalatal nasal/ɲ/; for example,Spain is calledSpanyol (compare withEspaña inSpanish).
Until 1972, this digraph was spellednj in the Indonesian standard.
In Old Spanish scripts[clarification needed], the graphny was widely used, along withnn andni, to represent the same palatal sound as Catalan,[ɲ]; however since standardization[when?] it has been replaced withñ. Despite this,ny may be found in modernSpanish whereñ is not available, such as in earlier computer programming or Internet domain names.[citation needed]
Similarly,ny is also used inJudaeo-Spanish.
InSwahili, ny represents the palatal nasal /ɲ/. As other consonant sounds, it can only appear at the beginning of a syllable. Examples:
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