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[[File:Latin digraph N Y.svg|thumb|Latin Ny digraph.]]

'''Ny''' is a digraph in a number of languages such as [[Catalan language|Catalan]], [[Luganda|Ganda]], [[Filipino language|Filipino/Tagalog]], [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], [[Swahili language|Swahili]] and [[Malay language|Malay]]. In most of these languages, including all of the ones named above, it denotes the [[palatal nasal]] ({{IPA|/ɲ/}}). To represent the palatal nasal in other languages, the letter nj is used, such as in Albanian and the countries using Gaj's Latin alphabet and the countries that make up the former Yugoslavia.

It has had widespread use for languages of [[West Africa]], though in some countries, the IPA letter ''[[ɲ]]'' is now used.

It is sometimes used in modern [[Spanish language|Spanish]] where ''[[ñ]]'' cannot be used, such as in earlier computer programming or [[Internet domain name]]s.<ref name="nic.es">[[FAQ]] about [[.es]] domain names: {{cite web |url=https://www.nic.es/faqs/que_puede.html |title=Cuando se pueda usar la letra "ñ", ¿existe alguna preferencia para solicitar nombres de dominio? |access-date=2007-05-22 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926113556/https://www.nic.es/faqs/que_puede.html |archive-date=September 26, 2006 }}. ''N'' and ''ny'' are mentioned as substitutes for ''ñ''.</ref>

==Aragonese==
The writing of the palatal nasal in [[Aragonese language|Aragonese]] has been a matter of debate since the first orthographic codification of the language (''grafía de Uesca'') in 1987 by the ''[[Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa]]'' at a convention in [[Huesca]]. Medieval Aragonese had used several different digraphs, but the two most common spellings used were ''ñ'' (as in Spanish) or ''ny'' (as in Catalan). ''Ñ'' was the one chosen and has been used in almost all texts of the last decades, but the subject remained controversial, and some writers continued to promote the use of the digraph ''ny''. The use of ''ny'' was also proposed in an alternative [[Aragonese orthography]], the ''grafía SLA'' devised in 2004 by the ''Sociedat de Lingüistica Aragonesa'' in 2004. According to the 2010 ''Orthographic Proposal'' of the [[Academia de l'Aragonés]], created in 2006, the palatal nasal phoneme should be written as ''ny''.<ref>Estudio de Filolochía Aragonesa. [http://www.academiadelaragones.org/biblio/EDACAR7_2.pdf Propuesta Ortografica de l'Academia de l'Aragonés]. Edicions Dichitals de l'Academia de l'Aragonés, Zaragoza, 2010.</ref> The 2023 academic orthography of Aragonese allows both spellings according to personal preference.<ref>[https://academiaaragonesadelalengua.org/sites/default/files/ficheros-pdf/ortografia-de-laragones_web_an.pdf Academia Aragonesa de la Lengua - Instituto de l'Aragonés Ortografía de l'aragonés]</ref>

== Catalan ==
In [[Catalan language|Catalan]], ''ny'' is not considered a single letter but a consonantal digraph (''n'' followed by ''y'') to represent {{IPA|/ɲ/}}. The letter ''y'', in Catalan, is used only to form ''ny'' (except in some foreign words) and has no other purpose.

It is found in any position in a word: at the beginning (''nyap'' "rubbish", ''nyaufar'' "to dent"), in intervocalic position (''Catalunya'' "Catalonia"; ''canya'' "reed", "steem") and at the end of a word (''any'' "year", ''estany'' "lagoon", ''seny'' "sense").

== Hungarian ==
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''Ny'' is the twenty-third letter of the [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] [[Hungarian alphabet|alphabet]]. Its name is ''eny'' ({{IPA|/ɛɲ/}}), and it represents the palatal nasal ({{IPA|/ɲ/}}). Even mere sequences of ''n'' and ''y'' that represent different sounds are considered instances of this letter; this holds true in  [[acronym]]s as well.

Below are examples of Hungarian words that use the letter ''ny'' along with their English translations:

*'''anya''' = ''mother''
*'''enyém''' = ''mine''
*'''annyi''' = ''so much''
*'''anyós''' = ''mother-in-law''
<!-- *'''nyű''' = ''maggot'' it's a bit obsolete and ambiguous: maggot or woodworm?-->
*'''esernyő''' = ''umbrella''
*'''zsivány''' = ''knave''

==Malay==
In [[Malaysian language|Malaysian]] and [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]], ''ny'' represents the [[palatal nasal]] {{IPA|/ɲ/}}; for example, [[Spain]] is called ''Spanyol'' (compare with ''España'' in [[Spanish language|Spanish]]).

[[Malay orthography#Pre-1972 spelling system|Until 1972]], this digraph was spelled ''nj'' in the Indonesian standard.

==Spanish==
In Old Spanish scripts{{clarify|reason=Just things in Old Spanish or things in older forms of the language as well?|date=June 2015}}, the graph ''ny'' was widely used, along with ''nn'' and ''ni'', to represent the same palatal sound as Catalan, {{IPA|[ɲ]}}; however since standardization{{when|date=June 2015}} it has been replaced with ''[[ñ]]''. Despite this, ''ny'' may be found in modern [[Spanish language|Spanish]] where ''ñ'' is not available, such as in earlier computer programming or Internet domain names.{{cn|date=December 2022}}

Similarly, ''ny'' is also used in [[Judaeo-Spanish]].

== Swahili ==

In [[Swahili language|Swahili]], ny represents the palatal nasal /ɲ/. As other consonant sounds, it can only appear at the beginning of a syllable. Examples:

* '''Kenya'''
* '''Kinywa''' = mouth
* '''Nyoka''' = snake
* '''Nyota''' = star
* '''Mnyama / wanyama''' = animal / animals
* '''Nyama''' = meat
* '''Punyeto''' = masturbation

==See also==
* [[Catalan alphabet]]
* [[Hungarian alphabet]]
* [[ñ]] (énye)

==References==
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