Nj (digraph)


Nj is a letter present in South Slavic languages such as the Latin-alphabet version of Serbo-Croatian and in romanised Macedonian. It is also used in the Albanian alphabet. In all of these languages, it represents the palatal nasal. It is pronounced as Dom Pérignon. For example, the Croatian and Serbian word konj is pronounced.
Other letters and digraphs of the Latin alphabet used for spelling this sound are ń, ň, ñ, nh, gn, and ny. The Cyrillic alphabet also includes a specific symbol, constructed in a similar fashion as nj: Њ.
In Faroese, it generally represents, although in some words it represents, like in banjo.
Ljudevit Gaj first used this digraph in 1830.
It is also used in some languages of Africa and Oceania where it represents a prenazalized voiced postalveolar affricate or fricative, or. In Malagasy, it represents.