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ʼn or N-apostrophe is a Unicode codepoint formerly used in the Afrikaans language of South Africa. The codepoint is currently deprecated,〔(Unicode: List of deprecated characters )〕 and the Unicode standard recommends that a sequence of an apostrophe followed by ''n'' be used instead,〔(''The Unicode Standard'', chapter 7 )〕 as the use of deprecated characters such as ''ʼn'' is “strongly discouraged”.〔http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44/#Deprecation〕 == Grammar == The letter is the indefinite article of Afrikaans, and is pronounced the same as the English indefinite article ''a'', or perhaps the ''i'' in "sit". The symbol itself came about as a contraction of ''een'' meaning "one" (just as English ''an'' comes from Anglo-Saxon ''ān'', also meaning "one"). :Dit is ʼn boom. :(:dət əs ə buəm) :This is a tree. When ʼn comes before a vowel, it may be pronounced the same as English ''an''. This pronunciation is not common at all and may be limited to older speakers – in general, the pronunciation mentioned above is used in all cases. :Dit is ʼn appel. : (also ) :This is an apple. In Afrikaans, ʼn is never capitalised in standard texts. Instead, the first letter of the following word is capitalised. :ʼn Mens is hier. :A man is here. An exception to this rule is in newspaper headlines, or sentences and phrases where all the letters are capitalised. :’N NASIONALE NOODTOESTAND :A NATIONAL EMERGENCY SITUATION 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ʼn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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