Ꞥ

Ꞥ (lowercase ꞥ) is a letter derived from the combination of the Latin letter N and a stroke diacritic. Until 1921, it was used in Latvian orthography to represent the hard palatal nasal /ɲ/. It was replaced by Ņ (N with a cedilla).

N with oblique stroke - uppercase and lowercase

It is represented in Unicode by:

U+A7A4 Ꞥ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH OBLIQUE STROKE
U+A7A5 ꞥ LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH OBLIQUE STROKE

Citations

López Ramos, Edívoras (2007). Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI)—Secretaría de Educación de Chiapas (ed.). "Alfabeto ilustrado del zoque, Variantes lingüísticas tsuni y ode" (PDF).

German NB, Proposal to encode 10 Latin letters for pre-1921 Latvian orthography, 30 April 2009.

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