Ny (digraph)
Ny is a digraph in a number of languages such as Catalan, Ganda, Filipino/Tagalog, Hungarian, Swahili and Malay. In most of these languages, including all of the ones named above, it denotes the palatal nasal (). To represent the palatal nasal in other languages, the letter nj is used, such as in Albanian and the countries using Gaj's Latin alphabet and the countries that make up the former Yugoslavia. It has had widespread use for languages of West Africa, though in some countries, the IPA letter "ɲ" is now used. It is sometimes used in modern Spanish  where "ñ" cannot be used, such as in earlier computer programming or Internet domain names. Aragonese. The writing of the palatal nasal in Aragonese has been a matter of debate since the first orthographic codification of the language ("grafía de Uesca") in 1987 by the "Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa" at a convention in Huesca. Medieval Aragonese had used several different digraphs, but the two most common spellings used were "ñ" (as in Spanish) or "ny" (as in Catalan). "Ñ" was the one chosen and has been used in almost all texts of the last decades, but the subject remained  controversial, and some writers continued to promote the use of the digraph "ny". The use of "ny" was also proposed in an alternative Aragonese orthography, the "grafía SLA" devised in 2004 by the "Sociedat de Lingüistica Aragonesa" in 2004. According to the 2010 "Orthographic Proposal" of the Academia de l'Aragonés, created in 2006, the palatal nasal phoneme should be written as "ny". Catalan. In Catalan, "ny" is not considered a single letter but a consonantal digraph ("n" followed by "y") to represent . The letter "y", in Catalan, is used only to form "ny" and has no other purpose. It is  found in any position in a word: at the beginning ("nyap" "rubbish", "nyaufar" "to dent"), in intervocalic position ("Catalunya" "Catalonia"; "canya" "reed", "steem") and at the end of a word ("any" "year", "estany" "lagoon", "seny" "sense"). Hungarian. "Ny" is the twenty-third letter of the Hungarian alphabet. Its name is "eny" (), and it represents the palatal nasal (). Even mere sequences of "n" and "y" that represent different sounds are considered instances of this letter; this holds true in acronyms as well. Below are examples of Hungarian words that use the letter "ny" along with their English translations: Malay. In Malaysian  and Indonesian Malay, "ny" represents the palatal nasal ; for example, Spain is called "Spanyol" (compare with "España" in Spanish). Until 1972, this digraph was spelled "nj" in the Indonesian standard. Spanish. In Old Spanish scripts, the graph "ny" was widely used, along with "nn" and "ni", to represent the same palatal sound as Catalan, ; however since standardization it has been replaced with "ñ". Despite this, "ny" may be found in modern Spanish where "ñ" is not available, such as in earlier computer programming or Internet domain names. Similarly, "ny" is also used in Judaeo-Spanish. Swahili. In Swahili, ny represents  the palatal nasal /ɲ/. As other consonant sounds, it can only appear at the beginning of a syllable. Examples: