Ń



Ń (minuscule: ń) is a letter formed by putting an acute accent over the letter N. In the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet; the alphabets of Apache, Navajo, Polish, Karakalpak, Kashubian, Wymysorys and the Sorbian languages; and the romanization of Khmer and Macedonian, it represents, which is the same as Czech and Slovak ň, Serbo-Croatian and Albanian nj, Spanish and Galician ñ, Italian and French gn, Hungarian and Catalan ny, and Portuguese nh. In Yoruba, it represents a syllabic /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 is mo ń jeun.

Polish
In Polish, it appears directly after $⟨n⟩$ in the alphabet, but no Polish word begins with this letter, because it may not appear before a vowel (the letter may appear only before a consonant or in the word-final position). In the former case, a digraph $⟨ni⟩$ is used to indicate. If the vowel following is, only one $⟨i⟩$ appears.

Examples

 * (April)
 * słoń (elephant)
 * dłoń (hand)
 * hańba (disgrace)
 * słońce (sun)

Cantonese
It is used in the Yale romanisation of Cantonese when the nasal syllable has a rising tone.

Lule Sami
Traditionally $⟨Ń⟩$ has been used in Lule Sami to represent. However, in modern orthography, such as signage in Lule Sami by the Swedish government, $⟨Ŋ⟩$ is used instead.

Kazakh
In Kazakh, it was proposed in 2018 to replace the Cyrillic Ң by this Latin alphabet and represents. The replacement suggestion was modified to Ŋ in 2019; and in 2021, it was suggested to replace it with Ñ.

Karakalpak
Ń/ń is the 19th letter of Karakalpak alphabet and represents.

Macedonian
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.

Computer use
HTML characters and Unicode code point numbers: In Unicode, Ń and ń are located the "Latin Extended-A" block.
 * Ń: &amp;#323; or &amp;#x143; – U+0143
 * ń: &amp;#324; or &amp;#x144; – U+0144