Ɲ is a letter indicating a palatal nasal. The lowercase form ɲ is used as an IPA symbol. The upper and lower case are used in the orthographies of some African languages (e.g. Bambara and Fula in Mali).
![image](https://www.wikiquery.en-us.nina.az/image/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2lraXF1ZXJ5LmVuLXVzLm5pbmEuYXovaW1hZ2UvYUhSMGNITTZMeTkxY0d4dllXUXVkMmxyYVcxbFpHbGhMbTl5Wnk5M2FXdHBjR1ZrYVdFdlkyOXRiVzl1Y3k5MGFIVnRZaTlsTDJVekwweGhkR2x1WDJ4bGRIUmxjbDlPWDNkcGRHaGZiR1ZtZEY5b2IyOXJMbk4yWnk4eU1qQndlQzFNWVhScGJsOXNaWFIwWlhKZlRsOTNhWFJvWDJ4bFpuUmZhRzl2YXk1emRtY3VjRzVuLnBuZw==.png)
Its Unicode code points are U+019D and U+0272, respectively.
Usage
The lowercase form ɲ is used as an IPA symbol for the voiced palatal nasal.
![image](https://www.wikiquery.en-us.nina.az/image/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2lraXF1ZXJ5LmVuLXVzLm5pbmEuYXovaW1hZ2UvYUhSMGNITTZMeTkxY0d4dllXUXVkMmxyYVcxbFpHbGhMbTl5Wnk5M2FXdHBjR1ZrYVdFdlkyOXRiVzl1Y3k5MGFIVnRZaTgzTHpjNEwwNW9iMjlyY3k1emRtY3ZNVGN3Y0hndFRtaHZiMnR6TG5OMlp5NXdibWM9LnBuZw==.png)
The symbol ⟨ɲ⟩ is used to represent an alveolo-palatal nasal in some languages, since there is no IPA symbol with the latter meaning, and no language distinguishes the two.
Usage on Computers
Preview | Ɲ | ɲ | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LEFT HOOK | LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH LEFT HOOK | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 413 | U+019D | 626 | U+0272 |
UTF-8 | 198 157 | C6 9D | 201 178 | C9 B2 |
Numeric character reference | Ɲ | Ɲ | ɲ | ɲ |
References
- "IPA Extensions" (PDF). Unicode. (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
See also
- Ñ ñ, a Spanish Letter
- Ԩ ԩ, a Orok-Ulita letter