Nje (ÃÂ ÃÂ; italics: <span style="font-family: times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: larger">ÃÂ ÃÂ</span>) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters En and Soft Sign . It was invented by Vuk StefanoviàKaradà ¾iàfor use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph . It corresponds to the digraph in Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian.
It is today used in Macedonian, variants of Serbo-Croatian when written in Cyrillic (Bosnian, Montenegrin, and Serbian), Itelmen and Udege, where it represents a palatal nasal , similar to the in "canyon" (cf. Polish , Czech and Slovak , Latvian â¨à Ââ©, Galician and Spanish , Occitan, Portuguese and Vietnamese , Catalan and Hungarian , and Italian and French ).
Nje is commonly transliterated as but it is also transliterated , , , or .