Voiced palatal nasal

IPA mark	ɲ
IPA number	118
IPA character description	Latin minuscule n with hook in the lower left corner
Unicode	U + 0272
HTML (dec.)	& # 626;
X-SAMPA	J
Kirshenbaum	n^
Audio sample ? / i [ ˌɲaːʔaˈɲaː ]

A voiced palatal nasal is a consonant in which the tongue is pressed against the hard palate and all air escapes through the nose when the vocal cords vibrate.

Phonetic and orthographic realization of the voiced palatal nasal in different languages:

• Albanian [⁠ ɲ ⁠] : Characterized by nj.
  • Example: nj ë [ ɲə ] "one"
• French [⁠ ɲ ⁠] : Characterized by gn.
  • Example: si gn e [ siɲ ] "characters"
• Italian [⁠ ɲ ⁠] : Characterized by gn.
  • Example: gn occhi [ ˈɲɔkːi ]
• Catalan [⁠ ɲ ⁠] : Characterized by ny.
  • Example: ju ny [ ˈʒuɲ ] "June"
• Latvian [⁠ ɲ ⁠] : N, N
  • Example: vi ņ a [ viɲa ] "she"
• Polish [⁠ ɲ ⁠] : ń, ni
  • Example: ni a ni a [ ɲaɲa ] "nanny"
• Portuguese [⁠ ɲ ⁠] : Characterized by nh.
  • Example: ama nh ã [ amɐˈɲã ] "tomorrow"
• Spanish [⁠ ɲ ⁠] : Ñ , ñ
  • Example: ma ñ ana [ maˈɲana ] "Tomorrow, tomorrow"
• Czech [⁠ ɲ ⁠] : Ò , ň; Ně, ně; Ni, ni; Ní, ní
  • Examples: ků ň [kuːɲ] "horse", ně kde [ ɲɛɡdɛ ] "somewhere", ni kde [ ɲɪɡdɛ ] "nowhere", Anto ní n Dvořák [ ˈantoɲiːn ]
• Hungarian [⁠ ɲ ⁠] Ny, ny
  • Examples: ny elv [ ˈɲɛlv ] "language, tongue", a ny a [ ˈɒɲɒ ] "mother", toro ny [ ˈtoroɲ ] "tower"
• In Slavic languages with Cyrillic script : marked by нь or  њ ; in some also any combination of н followed by е , и , ю ,  я :
  • Examples: си нь о [ siˈɲo ] "blue" ( Bulgarian ), н ет [ ɲɛt ] "no" ( Russian ), ма њ е [ ˈmaɲe ] "less" ( Serbian )

See also

• consonant
• Nasal (phonetics)
• Palatal
• Voicing

Pulmonary consonants according to IPA (2005)	bilabial		labio- dental		dental		alveolar		post- alveolar		retroflex		palatal		velar		uvular		phase- ryngal		glottal
	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.
Plosives	​p​	​b​					​t​	​d​			​ʈ​	​ɖ​	​c​	​ɟ​	​k​	​ɡ​	​q​	​ɢ​			​ʔ​
Nasals		​m​		​ɱ​				​n​				​ɳ​		​ɲ​		​ŋ​		​ɴ​
Vibrants		​ʙ​						​r​										​ʀ​
Taps / flaps				​ⱱ​				​ɾ​				​ɽ​
Fricatives	​ɸ​	​β​	​f​	​v​	​θ​	​ð​	​s​	​z​	​ʃ​	​ʒ​	​ʂ​	​ʐ​	​ç​	​ʝ​	​x​	​ɣ​	​χ​	​ʁ​	​H​	​ʕ​	​H​	​ɦ​
lateral fricatives							​ɬ​	​ɮ​
Approximants				​ʋ​				​ɹ​				​ɻ​		​j​		​w​ ¹
lateral approximants								​l​				​ɭ​		​ʎ​		​ʟ​
¹ The labialised variant [ w ] was inserted here as a voiced velar approximant ( half vowel ) instead of the non-labialised variant [ ɰ ].