Ny (digraph)

Latin Ny digraph.

Ny is a digraph in a number of languages such as Catalan, Ganda, Filipino/Tagalog, Hungarian, Swahili and Malay. In most of these languages, including all of the ones named above, it denotes the palatal nasal (/ɲ/). To represent the palatal nasal in other languages, the letter nj is used, such as in Albanian and the countries using Gaj's Latin alphabet and the countries that make up the former Yugoslavia.

It has had widespread use for languages of West Africa, though in some countries, the IPA letter ɲ is now used.

It is sometimes used in modern Spanish where ñ cannot be used, such as in earlier computer programming or Internet domain names.[1]

  1. ^ FAQ about .es domain names: "Cuando se pueda usar la letra "ñ", ¿existe alguna preferencia para solicitar nombres de dominio?". Archived from the original on September 26, 2006. Retrieved 2007-05-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link). N and ny are mentioned as substitutes for ñ.

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