Nje

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Handwritten cursive form of Nje

Nje, Nye, or Ñe (Њ њ; italics: Њ њ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

It is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters En Template:Angbr and Soft Sign Template:Angbr.<ref name="Maretić">Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika. 1899.</ref> It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph Template:Angbr.<ref name="Maretić" /> It corresponds to the digraph Template:Angbr in Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian.<ref name="Maretić" />

It is today used in Macedonian, variants of Serbo-Croatian when written in Cyrillic (Bosnian, Montenegrin, and Serbian), Itelmen and Udege, where it represents a palatal nasal {{#invoke:IPA|main}}, similar to the Template:Angbr in "canyon" (cf. Polish Template:Angbr, Czech and Slovak Template:Angbr, Latvian ⟨ņ⟩, Galician and Spanish Template:Angbr, Occitan, Portuguese and Vietnamese Template:Angbr, Catalan and Hungarian Template:Angbr, and Italian and French Template:Angbr).

Nje is commonly transliterated as {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} but it is also transliterated {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, or {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}.