N-diaeresis

"N̈", or "n̈" (referred to as n-diaeresis or n-umlaut) is a grapheme from several minor extended Latin alphabets, the letter N with a diaeresis mark.

It occurs in the orthographies of Jacaltec (a Mayan dialect), Malagasy, and Cape Verdean Creole, in all three cases representing a velar [ŋ].

Encoding

The "N̈" appears in very few languages, and is thus not represented on any computer keyboards in any languages. It is also not available as an HTML entity.

Neither "N̈" nor "n̈" are characters in the Unicode character set, and have to be represented as a letter "N" (or "n") and combining diaeresis U+0308.

In popular culture

The letter is probably most commonly known for its use in the title of the fictional band Spın̈al Tap. It is used as a parody of the heavy metal umlaut used gratuitously by several actual bands, such as Motörhead, Mötley Crüe and Blue Öyster Cult.

See also

• Umlaut (diacritic)
• Metal umlaut

The ISO basic Latin alphabetv · d · e
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter N with diacritics
Ńń	Ǹǹ	Ňň	Ññ	Ṅṅ	Ņņ	Ṇṇ	Ṋṋ	Ṉṉ	N̈n̈	Ɲɲ	Ƞƞ	Ŋŋ	Ꞑꞑ	ᵰ	ᶇ	ɳ	ȵ
Letters using umlaut or diaeresis sign ( ◌̈ )
Ää	Ëë	Ḧḧ	Ï ï	N̈n̈	Öö	T̈ẗ	Üü	Ẅẅ	Ẍẍ	Ÿÿ
Related
History • Palaeography • Derivations • Diacritics • Punctuation • Numerals • Unicode • List of letters • ISO/IEC 646