N-apostrophe (’n, a letter (n) preceded by an apostrophe) is a digraph used in Afrikaans, a language spoken in South Africa and Namibia.
The letter is the indefinite article of Afrikaans, and is pronounced as a schwa. The symbol itself came about as a contraction of its Dutch equivalent Dutch; Flemish: [[wikt:een|een]] meaning "one" (just as English an comes from Anglo-Saxon ān, also meaning "one").
Dit is ’n boom.
pronounced as /af/
It is a tree.
In Afrikaans, ’n is never capitalised in standard texts. Instead, the first letter of the following word is capitalised.
’n Mens is hier.
A person 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
The Unicode standard recommends that a sequence of an apostrophe followed by n be used to encode this diagraph.[1]
It may be generated by combining with (n) or (N) to create or .