N-apostrophe (’n, a letter preceded by an apostrophe) is a digraph used in Afrikaans, a language spoken in South Africa and Namibia.
Grammar 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 , also meaning "one").
It is a tree.
In Afrikaans, ’n is never capitalised in standard texts. Instead, the first letter of the following word is capitalised.
A person is here.
An exception to this rule is in newspaper headlines, or sentences and phrases where all the letters are capitalised.
A NATIONAL EMERGENCY SITUATION
In computer systems The Unicode standard recommends that a sequence of an apostrophe followed by n () be used to encode this diagraph.The Unicode Standard, chapter 7
See also Afrikaans Afrikaans grammar 't (apostrophe t), a similar digraph in Dutch , the "punctuation apostrophe" to be used in this case (the glyph has two meanings). , the tendency of word processing software to misinterpret an opening apostrophe as an opening (left) quote
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