N
N is the fourteenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English (pronounced /ˈɛn/) is spelled en.
Usage
N represents the dental or alveolar nasal in virtually all languages that use the Latin alphabet. A common digraph with <n> is <ng>, which represents a velar nasal in a variety of languages, usually positioned word-finally in English. In languages like Italian and French, <gn> represents a palatal nasal (/ɲ/). The Portuguese spelling for this sound is <nh>. In English, n is silent when it is preceded by an m, in words like hymn (although it is pronounced in words such as damnation).
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the lowercase [n] represents the alveolar nasal sound. A small capital [ɴ] represents the uvular nasal.
N is the second-most commonly used consonant in the English language (after T). It also represents the element Nitrogen (Atomic number=7)
Codes for computing
In Unicode the capital N is codepoint U+004E and the lower case n is U+006E.
The ASCII code for capital N is 78 and for lowercase n is 110; or in binary 01001110 and 01101110, correspondingly.
The EBCDIC code for capital N is 213 and for lowercase n is 149.
The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "<tt>&#78;</tt>" and "<tt>&#110;</tt>" for upper and lower case respectively.
Translation
The word "N" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Afrikaans, Alemannic, Arabic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Asturian, Azeri, Min Nan, Bosnian, Catalan, Czech, Corsican, Welsh, Danish, German, Estonian, Greek, Spanish, Esperanto, Basque, Persian, West Frisian, Friulian, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Gan, Korean, Croatian, Ilokano, Icelandic, Italian, Hebrew, Georgian, Cornish, Swahili, Haitian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Mazandarani, Malay, Nahuatl, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Norman, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Quechua, Northern Sami, Saterland Frisian, Sicilian, Simple English, Slovak, Slovenian, Finnish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese, Volapük, Yiddish, Yoruba, Cantonese, Samogitian, Chinese.
Translation(s) in other languages: Breton: N (lizherenn), French: N (lettre), Manx: Neaynin (lettyr), Macedonian: N (Латиница), Dutch: N (letter), Uzbek: N (harf), Russian: N (латиница), Serbian: N (слово латинице), Turkish: N (harf), Ukrainian: N (латиниця).
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