Ƞ
Ƞ ( lower case ƞ) is a letter in the Latin writing system . It looks like an N with its right leg pulled down. Similar to the Ŋ , it can have two different forms.
In the 19th century, the Greek lowercase letter Eta , which nasalized the previous letter as a replacement for the Ŋ seldom available on typewriters at the time, was adopted from a Dakota alphabet. The first work to use this letter in Lakota was the book A Grammar of Lakota , published by Eugene Buechel in 1939 . When the Lakota orthography was created in 1982, the Eta prevailed as a nasal symbol against the Ogonek , which was eventually replaced by the Ƞ in order to obtain a purely Latin orthography.
The lowercase letter ƞ was also a letter of the international phonetic alphabet and stood for a syllable / n /, as it is e.g. B. occurs with the kana letter ん . This usage was abolished in 1976, instead the N with the diacritic should be used for a syllabic consonant ( n̩ ).
Presentation on the computer
Unicode contains the Ƞ at the code points U + 0220 (uppercase letter) and U + 019E (lowercase letter).