En (Cyrillic)
En is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It commonly represents the alveolar nasal consonant, like the pronunciation of in "neat".History
The Cyrillic letter En was derived from the Greek letter Nu.
The name of En in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was , meaning "ours".Form
The capital Cyrillic letter En looks exactly the same as the capital Latin letter H but, as with most Cyrillic letters, the lowercase form is simply a smaller version of the uppercase.
By exception, the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet used N and ɴ, instead of Н and н.
\letter Eta while the Cyrillic letter En was derived from the Greek letter Nu which looks like a reversed Cyrillic.Usage
As used in the alphabets of various languages, En represents the following sounds:
- alveolar nasal consonant, like the pronunciation of in "nice"
- dental nasal consonant, as above but with the tip of the tongue on the teeth
- palatalized alveolar nasal consonant, like the pronunciation of in "onion"
- palatalized dental nasal consonant, as above but with the tip of the tongue on the teeth
- palatal nasal consonant
The pronunciations shown in the table are the primary ones for each language; for details consult the articles on the languages.
| Language | Position in
alphabet | Pronunciation |
| Belarusian | 15th | , |
| Bulgarian | 14th | , |
| Macedonian | 17th | |
| Russian | 15th | , |
| Serbian | 16th | |
| Ukrainian | 18th | , |
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