U+105AD "𐖭" Vithkuqi Small Letter Nje Unicode Character

U+105AD "𐖭" Vithkuqi Small Letter Nje is a lowercase letter used in the Vithkuqi script, which was historically invented in the 19th century by the Albanian scholar Naum Veqilharxhi in an effort to create a distinct writing system for the Albanian language. This specific character represents the sound /ɲ/, similar to the "gn" in the Italian word "gnocchi" or the "ñ" in Spanish. The script itself, including this letter, encodes a cursive‑like, rounded style and was designed partly to avoid the political and religious associations of the Latin, Greek, and Arabic alphabets then in use. While Vithkuqi was never widely adopted and fell out of common use, it has been added to the Unicode Standard as part of a broader effort to preserve historical scripts and support digital representation of diverse writing systems.