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Biography
About|the letterpp-move-indef|small=yesLatin alphabet navbox|uc=N|lc=n N (IPAc-en|icon|'|?|n; English_alphabet#Letter_names|named en "N" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "en," op. cit.) is the fourteenth Letter (alphabet)|letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet .
History of the forms
One of the most common Egyptian hieroglyphs|hieroglyphs , snake , was used in Egypt ian writing to stand for a sound like English ? J ?, because the Egyptian word for "snake" was djet . It is speculated 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 alphabet|Phoenician , Hebrew , Aramaic and Arabic alphabet|Arabic alphabets is Nun (letter)|nun , which means " fish " in some of these languages. The sound value of the letter was IPA|/n/—as in Greek language|Greek , Etruscan language|Etruscan , Latin and all modern languages.
Egyptian hieroglyph for '? '
Phoenician N
Etruscan N
Nu
D
Usage
Language
dental nasal|Dental or alveolar nasal in virtually all languages that use the Latin alphabet. A common digraph (orthography)|digraph with ?n? is ?ng?, which represents a velar nasal in a variety of languages, usually positioned word-finally in English language|English . Often, before a velar stop|velar plosive (as in ink or jungle ), ?n? alone represents a velar nasal. In languages like Italian and French, ?gn? represents a palatal nasal (IPA|/?/). The Portuguese spelling for this sound is ?nh? (while Spanish and a few other languages use the letter ? ñ ?). In English, ?n? is generally silent when it is preceded by an ?m? at the end of words, as in hymn ; however, ?n? is pronounced in this combination when occurring word medially, as in hymnal .
In the Help:IPA|International Phonetic Alphabet , the lowercase IPA|n represents the alveolar nasal sound. A small capital IPA|? represents the uvular nasal .
?n? is the sixth most common letter and the second-most commonly used consonant in the English language (after ? t ?).
Mathematics
In mathematics , the italic form ( n ) is the common symbol for a Variable (mathematics)|variable quantity, especially one which represents an integer .
is often used to refer to the set of natural number s.
Related letters and other similar characters
? ? : Nu (letter)|Greek letter Nu
? ? ( ? ? ) : Pe (Cyrillic)|Cyrillic letter Pe
? ? ( ? ? ) : En (Cyrillic)|Cyrillic letter En
? ? ( ? ? ) : I (Cyrillic)|Cyrillic letter I
N n : N|Latin letter N with acute
Ñ ñ : Ñ|Latin letter N with tilde
N n : N|Latin letter N with caron
anchor|Codes for computing
Computing codes
character
Unicode name
character encoding
Unicode
UTF-8
Numeric character reference
EBCDIC family
ASCII 1
1 and all encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Other representations
Letter other reps|NATO=November |Morse=–· |Character=N |Braille=?
References
Reflist
External links
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Latin alphabet|N| Category:ISO basic Latin letters
