Ña (Indic)

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Ña
Example glyphs
Bengali
Tibetan
Tamil
Thai	ญ
Malayalam	ഞ
Sinhala	ඤ
Ashoka Brahmi
Devanagari
Properties
Phonemic representation	/ɲ/
IAST transliteration	ña Ña
ISCII code point	BC (188)

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Ña or Nya is the tenth consonant of Indic abugidas. It is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter .

Historic Nya[]

There are three different general early historic scripts - Brahmi and its variants, Kharoṣṭhī, and Tocharian, the so-called slanting Brahmi. Nya as found in standard Brahmi, was a simple geometric shape, with variations toward more flowing forms by the Gupta . The Tocharian Nya did not have an alterante Fremdzeichen form. The third form of nya, in Kharoshthi () was probably derived from Aramaic separately from the Brahmi letter.

Brahmi Nya[]

The Brahmi letter , Nya, is probably derived from the altered Aramaic Nun , and is thus related to the modern Latin N and Greek Nu. Several identifiable styles of writing the Brahmi Nya can be found, most associated with a specific set of inscriptions from an artifact or diverse records from an historic period.^[1] As the earliest and most geometric style of Brahmi, the letters found on the Edicts of Ashoka and other records from around that time are normally the reference form for Brahmi letters, with vowel marks not attested until later forms of Brahmi back-formed to match the geometric writing style.

Brahmi Nya historic forms

Ashoka (3rd-1st c. BCE)	Girnar (~150 BCE)	Kushana (~150-250 CE)	Gujarat (~250 CE)	Gupta (~350 CE)

Tocharian Nya[]

The Tocharian letter is derived from the Brahmi , but does not have an alternate Fremdzeichen form.

Tocharian Nya with vowel marks

Nya	Nyā	Nyi	Nyī	Nyu	Nyū	Nyr	Nyr̄	Nye	Nyai	Nyo	Nyau	Nyä

Kharoṣṭhī Nya[]

The Kharoṣṭhī letter is generally accepted as being derived from the altered Aramaic Nun , and is thus related to N and Nu, in addition to the Brahmi Nya.

Devanagari script[]

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Ña (ञ, Sanskrit and Hindi: ञकार ñakāra) is the tenth consonant of the Devanagari abugida. It ultimately arose from the Brahmi letter , after having gone through the Gupta letter . Letters that derive from it are the Gujarati letter ઞ, and the Modi letter