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Most typefaces display this character as N with a centered comma, but some orthographies prefer a connected cedilla shifted to one of the legs, ņ .
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs , which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur , and sporadically in Cyrillic .
ņ (lower case , upper case Ņ )
The twenty-second letter of the Latvian alphabet , called eņ and written in the Latin script .
Letters of the Latvian alphabet:
burti : A a , Ā ā , B b , C c , Č č , D d , E e , Ē ē , F f , G g , Ģ ģ , H h , I i , Ī ī , J j , K k , Ķ ķ , L l , Ļ ļ , M m , N n , Ņ ņ , O o , P p , R r , S s , Š š , T t , U u , Ū ū , V v , Z z , Ž ž
ņ (lower case , upper case Ņ )
The twenty-first letter of the Livonian alphabet , written in the Latin script .
( Latin-script letters) kēratē’ḑ ; A a , Ā ā , Ä ä , Ǟ ǟ , B b , D d , Ḑ ḑ , E e , Ē ē , F f , G g , H h , I i , Ī ī , J j , K k , L l , Ļ ļ , M m , N n , Ņ ņ , O o , Ō ō , Ȯ ȯ , Ȱ ȱ , Õ õ , Ȭ ȭ , P p , R r , Ŗ ŗ , S s , Š š , T t , Ț ț , U u , Ū ū , V v , Z z , Ž ž