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Template:Latin letter info N, or n, is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is en (pronounced /ˈɛn/), plural ens.[1]
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| Egyptian hieroglyph |
Phoenician Nun |
Etruscan N |
Greek Nu |
Latin N |
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| <hiero>D</hiero> | x30px | x30px | x35px | Latin N |
One of the most common hieroglyphs, snake, was used in Egyptian writing to stand for a sound like the English Template:Angbr, because the Egyptian word for "snake" was djet. It is speculated by many[who?] that Semitic people working in Egypt adapted hieroglyphics to create the first alphabet, and that they used the same snake symbol to represent N, because their word for "snake" may have begun with that sound. However, the name for the letter in the Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic alphabets is nun, which means "fish" in some of these languages. The sound value of the letter was /n/—as in Greek, Etruscan, Latin and modern languages.
Use in writing systems
Template:Angbr represents a dental or alveolar nasal in virtually all languages that use the Latin alphabet, and in the International Phonetic Alphabet. A common digraph with Template:Angbr is Template:Angbr, which represents a velar nasal in a variety of languages, usually positioned word-finally in English.[2][3] Often, before a velar plosive (as in ink or jungle), Template:Angbr alone represents a velar nasal. In Italian and French, Template:Angbr represents a palatal nasal /ɲ/. The Portuguese and Vietnamese spelling for this sound is Template:Angbr, while Spanish, Breton, and a few other languages use the letter Template:Angbr.
In English, Template:Angbr is generally silent when it is preceded by an Template:Angbr at the end of words, as in hymn; however, it is pronounced in this combination when occurring word medially, as in hymnal.
On the other hand, other consonants are often silent when they precede an Template:Angbr at the beginning of an English word. Examples include gnome, knife, mnemonic, and pneumonia.
Template:Angbr is the sixth-most common letter and the second-most commonly used consonant in the English language (after Template:Angbr).[4]
Other uses
In mathematics, the italic form n is a particularly common symbol for a variable quantity which represents a natural number. The set of natural numbers is referred to as <math>\mathbb{N}.</math>
Related characters
- N with diacritics: Ń ń Ñ ñ Ň ň Ǹ ǹ Ṅ ṅ Ṇ ṇ Ņ ņ Ṉ ṉ Ṋ ṋ Ꞥ ꞥ ᵰ[5] ᶇ[6]
- Phonetic alphabet symbols related to N (the International Phonetic Alphabet only uses lowercase, but uppercase forms are used in some other writing systems):
- Ŋ ŋ : Latin letter eng, which represents a velar nasal in the IPA
- 𝼔 : Small letter eng with palatal hook, which is used in phonetic transcription[7][8]
- 𝼇 : Small letter reversed eng, which is an extension to IPA for disordered speech (extIPA)[9]
- Ɲ ɲ : Latin letter Ɲ, which represents a palatal nasal or an alveolo-palatal nasal in the IPA
- n : Superscript small n, which represents a nasal release in the IPA
- Ƞ ƞ : Latin letter Ƞ (encoded in Unicode as "N with long right leg"), a mostly obsolete letter used to transcribe various nasal sounds
- ɳ : Latin letter n with a hook, which represents a retroflex nasal in the IPA
- ᶯ : Modifier letter small n with retroflex hook[10]
- ᶮ : Modifier letter small n with left hook[6]
- ɴ : Small capital N, which represents a uvular nasal in the IPA
- ᶰ : Modifier letter small capital N[6]
- Uralic Phonetic Alphabet-specific symbols related to N:[11]
- U+1D0E ᴎ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL REVERSED N
- U+1D3A ᴺ MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL N
- U+1D3B ᴻ MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL REVERSED N
- U+1D51 ᵑ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL ENG
- n : Subscript small n was used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet prior to its formal standardization in 1902[12]
- Teuthonista phonetic transcription system uses U+AB3B ꬻ LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH CROSSED-TAIL and U+AB3C ꬼ LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG WITH CROSSED-TAIL[3]
- ȵ : N with curl is used in Sino-Tibetanist linguistics[2]
- Ꞑ ꞑ : N with descender
- 𝼧: Small letter n with mid-height left hook was used by the British and Foreign Bible Society in the early 20th century for romanization of the Malayalam language.[13]
Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
- 𐤍 : Semitic letter Nun, from which the following symbols originally derive
- Ν ν : Greek letter Nu, from which the following symbols originally derive
- Template:Script : Coptic letter Ne
- Н н : Cyrillic letter En
- 𐌍 : Old Italic N, which is the ancestor of modern Latin N
- Template:Script : Gothic letter nauþs
- Ν ν : Greek letter Nu, from which the following symbols originally derive
Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations
- ₦ : Nigerian Naira
Computing codes
Other representations
References
- ↑ "N" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "en," op. cit.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cook, Richard; Everson, Michael (2001-09-20). "L2/01-347: Proposal to add six phonetic characters to the UCS". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01347-n2366r.pdf.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Everson, Michael; Dicklberger, Alois; Pentzlin, Karl; Wandl-Vogt, Eveline (2011-06-02). "L2/11-202: Revised proposal to encode "Teuthonista" phonetic characters in the UCS". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11202-n4081-teuthonista.pdf.
- ↑ "English Letter Frequency". http://www.math.cornell.edu/~mec/2003-2004/cryptography/subs/frequencies.html.
- ↑ Constable, Peter (2003-09-30). "L2/03-174R2: Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Middle Tilde in the UCS". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03174r2-mid-tilde.pdf.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Constable, Peter (2004-04-19). "L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04132-n2740-phonetic.pdf.
- ↑ Miller, Kirk (2020-07-11). "L2/20-125R: Unicode request for expected IPA retroflex letters and similar letters with hooks". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20125r-ipa-retroflex.pdf.
- ↑ Anderson, Deborah (2020-12-07). "L2/21-021: Reference doc numbers for L2/20-266R "Consolidated code chart of proposed phonetic characters" and IPA etc. code point and name changes". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21021-consolidated-ipa.pdf.
- ↑ Miller, Kirk; Ball, Martin (2020-07-11). "L2/20-116R: Expansion of the extIPA and VoQS". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20116r-ext-ipa-voqs-expansion.pdf.
- ↑ Constable, Peter (2004-04-19). "L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04132-n2740-phonetic.pdf.
- ↑ Everson, Michael (2002-03-20). "L2/02-141: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02141-n2419-uralic-phonetic.pdf.
- ↑ Ruppel, Klaas; Aalto, Tero; Everson, Michael (2009-01-27). "L2/09-028: Proposal to encode additional characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09028-n3571-upa-additions.pdf.
- ↑ Miller, Kirk; Rees, Neil (2021-07-16). "L2/21-156: Unicode request for legacy Malayalam". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21156-legacy-malayalam.pdf.
External links
- 16x16px Media related to N at Wikimedia Commons
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