N-apostrophe (âÂÂn, a letter preceded by an apostrophe) is a digraph used in Afrikaans, a language spoken in South Africa and Namibia.
The letter is the indefinite article of Afrikaans, and is pronounced as a schwa. The symbol itself came about as a contraction of its Dutch equivalent ' meaning "one" (just as English an comes from Anglo-Saxon ÃÂn, also meaning "one").
In Afrikaans, âÂÂn is never capitalised in standard texts. Instead, the first letter of the following word is capitalised.
An exception to this rule is in newspaper headlines, or sentences and phrases where all the letters are capitalised.
The Unicode standard recommends that a sequence of an apostrophe followed by n () be used to encode this diagraph.
It may be generated by combining () with or to create or .