Nje

Nje (Њ њ; italics: Њ њ ; also called nye) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

It is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters En $⟨н⟩$ and Soft Sign $⟨ь⟩$. It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph $⟨нь⟩$. It corresponds to the digraph $⟨nj⟩$ in Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian.

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, similar to the $⟨ny⟩$ in "canyon" (cf. Polish $⟨ń⟩$, Czech and Slovak $⟨ň⟩$, Latvian ⟨ņ⟩, Galician and Spanish $⟨ñ⟩$, Occitan, Portuguese and Vietnamese $⟨nh⟩$, Catalan and Hungarian $⟨ny⟩$, and Italian and French $⟨gn⟩$).

Nje is commonly transliterated as nj but it is also transliterated ń or ņ.

Related letters and other similar characters

 * Н н : Н|Cyrillic letter En
 * Ь ь : Ь|Cyrillic letter Soft sign
 * Ñ ñ : Ñ|Latin letter N with tilde - a Filipino, Spanish, and Tetum letter
 * Ń ń : Ń|Latin letter N with acute - a Kashubian, Polish, and Sorbian letter
 * Ň ň : Ň|Latin letter N with caron - a Czech, Turkmen, and Slovak letter
 * Ņ ņ : Ņ|Latin letter N with cedilla - a Latvian letter
 * Љ љ : Љ|Cyrillic letter Lje
 * Ԩ ԩ : Ԩ|Cyrillic letter En with left hook - a letter uses in Orok language.