N with long right leg (majuscule: Ƞ, minuscule: ƞ) is an obsolete letter of the Latin alphabet and the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is encoded in Unicode as and . It is nearly homoglyphic with the lowercase Greek letter Eta.
was used to represent the nasalization of vowels in the Lakota language, Sage and Sweetgrass, 2008 in that language's 1982 orthography.Michael Everson, Proposal to add LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LONG RIGHT LEG to the UCS , 29 November 2000 Later Lakota orthography replaced the letter with ,New Lakota Dictionary Online , Lakota Language Consortium, 2008-2013 a more common letter that represents a velar nasal sound in many languages.
In the IPA, the letter was used from 1951 to 1976 to transcribe a moraic nasal that is homorganic with a following consonant, but was retired after falling into disuse. The wildcard letter capital /N/ is often used for something similar today.
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