Nje (Њ њ; italics: Њ њ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters En and Soft Sign . It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph . It corresponds to the digraph 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 in "canyon" (cf. Polish , Czech and Slovak , Latvian ⟨ņ⟩, Galician and Spanish , Occitan, Portuguese and Vietnamese , Catalan and Hungarian , and Italian and French ). Nje is commonly transliterated as but it is also transliterated or Related letters and other similar characters Н н : Cyrillic letter En Ь ь : Cyrillic letter Soft sign Ñ ñ : Latin letter N with tilde - a Filipino, Spanish, and Tetum letter Ń ń : Latin letter N with acute - a Kashubian, Polish, and Sorbian letter Ň ň : Latin letter N with caron - a Czech, Turkmen, and Slovak letter Ņ ņ : Latin letter N with cedilla - a Latvian letter Љ љ : Cyrillic letter Lje Computing codes See also Iotation References External links IBM EBCDIC (Cyrillic Russian) encoding - Windows charsets Cyrillic ligatures Serbian letters bs:Nj hr:Nj sh:NJ