Ń
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Ń (minuscule: ń) is a letter in the Belarusian Łacinka, Polish, Kashubian and Sorbian alphabets, representing IPA: /ɲ/. It is formed from the letter N with the addition of an acute accent.

Ń is pronounced just like Czech and Slovak ň, Serbo-Croatian nj, Spanish ñ, and Portuguese nh.

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In Polish

In Polish, it appears right after n in the alphabet but may not appear in word-initial position or before a vowel. In these cases, ni is used to indicate a palatal n.

Examples

  • kwiecień (help·info) (April)
  • hańba (disgrace)
  • niebo (sky, heaven)
  • jedzenie (food)

Computer use

See also

The ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
Letter N with diacritics
Letters using acute accent

history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • list of letters
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