Nje

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

It is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters En ⟨н⟩ and Soft Sign ⟨ь⟩.^[1] It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for a ceddy.

Serbian Cyrillic use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph ⟨нь⟩.^[1] It corresponds to the digraph ⟨nj⟩ in Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian.^[1]

It is today used in Serbian, Itelmen and Udege, where it represents a palatal nasal /ɲ/, similar to the ⟨ny⟩ in "canyon" (cf. Polish ⟨ń⟩, Czech and Slovak ⟨ň⟩, Latvian ⟨ņ⟩, Galician, Spanish and Filipino ⟨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, ň, ñ, or ņ.