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thumb|class=skin-invert-image|Handwritten cursive form of Nje Nje (Њ њ; italics: Њ њ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Nje (Њ њ) is a letter used in the Cyrillic alphabet, the writing system employed by several Slavic languages. It represents a specific consonant sound and is part of the standard alphabet in languages like Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian.

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Grapheme.script
Cyrillic
Grapheme.type
Alphabet
Grapheme.typedesc
ic
Grapheme.name
Nje
Grapheme.image
Cyrillic letter Nje - uppercase and lowercase.svg
Grapheme.imageclass
skin-invert-image
Grapheme.phonemes
[]
Grapheme.equivalents
Nj nj
Grapheme.letter
Њ њ
Grapheme.language
Macedonian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Itelmen, Udege

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њ
inception
1818-00-00
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Cyrillic Nje
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thumb|class=skin-invert-image|Handwritten cursive form of Nje Nje (Њ њ; italics: Њ њ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

It is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters En and Soft Sign . It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph . It corresponds to the digraph in Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian.

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