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{{short description|Latin letter N with acute accent}}
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[[File:Latin letter N with acute.svg|thumb|Latin N with acute]]

'''Ń''' ([[Lower case|minuscule]]: '''ń''') is a letter formed by putting an [[acute accent]] over the letter [[N]]. In the [[Belarusian Latin alphabet|Belarusian Łacinka alphabet]]; the alphabets of [[Apache language|Apache]], [[Navajo alphabet|Navajo]], [[Polish alphabet|Polish]], [[Karakalpak alphabet|Karakalpak]], [[Kashubian alphabet|Kashubian]], [[Wymysorys language|Wymysorys]] and the [[Sorbian alphabet|Sorbian]] languages; and the [[romanization]] of [[Khmer language|Khmer]] and [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]], it represents {{IPAslink|ɲ}},<ref>{{Cite web |last=Childs |first=G. Tucker |date=2014 |title=Chapter 2 Phonemic inventory |url=https://www.degruyter.com/database/EEG/entry/MGL-54_6/html |access-date=2022-10-13 |website=De Gruyter |language=en}}</ref> which is the same as Czech and Slovak ''[[ň]]'', Serbo-Croatian and Albanian ''[[nj (letter)|nj]]'', Spanish and Galician ''[[ñ]]'', Italian and French ''[[gn (digraph)|gn]]'', Hungarian and Catalan ''[[ny (digraph)|ny]]'', Latvian and Livonian ''[[Latvian orthography|ņ]]'', and Portuguese ''[[nh (digraph)|nh]].'' In [[Yoruba alphabet|Yoruba]], it represents a [[syllabic consonant|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''.

==Usage==
===Polish===
{{See also|Polish orthography#Palatal and palatalized consonants}}
In Polish, it appears directly after {{angbr|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).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/11164|title=Syllable structure assignment in Polish |last1=G.E.|first1=Booij|last2=J.|first2=Rubach|date=1990-01-01|website=openaccess.leidenuniv.nl|language=en-US|access-date=2016-04-12|last3=Letteren|first3=Faculteit der}}</ref> In the former case, a [[digraph (orthography)|digraph]] {{angbr|ni}} is used to indicate {{IPAslink|ɲ}}. If the vowel following is {{IPAslink|i}}, only one {{angbr|i}} appears.

====Examples====
* {{lang|pl|{{audio|pl-kwiecień.ogg|kwiecie'''ń'''}}}} (''April'')
* {{lang|pl|słoń}} (elephant) 
* {{lang|pl|dłoń}} (''hand'')
* {{lang|pl|hańba}} (''disgrace'') 
* {{lang|pl|słońce}} (''sun'')

===Cantonese===
It is used in the [[Yale romanisation of Cantonese]] when the nasal syllable {{IPA|/ŋ̩/}} has a rising tone, as in {{Angbr|ńg}} {{IPA|/ŋ̩˧˥/}} and {{Angbr|ńgh}} {{IPA|/ŋ̩˩˧/}}.

===Lule Sami===
Traditionally {{angbr|Ń}} has been used in [[Lule Sami language|Lule Sami]] to represent {{IPAslink|ŋ}}.  However, in modern orthography, such as signage in Lule Sami by the Swedish government, {{angbr|[[Ŋ]]}} is used instead.

===Kazakh===
In [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]], it was proposed in 2018 to replace the Cyrillic [[Ң]] by this [[Kazakh alphabets#Latin script|Latin alphabet]] and represents {{IPAslink|ŋ}}. 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 {{IPAslink|ŋ}}. 

===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:
* Ń<!--Ń-->: &amp;#323; or &amp;#x143; &ndash; U+0143
* ń<!--ń-->: &amp;#324; or &amp;#x144; &ndash; U+0144
In [[Unicode]], Ń and ń are located the  "[[Latin Extended-A]]" block.

== See also ==
* [[Acute accent]]

==References==
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