U+2C9B "ⲛ" Coptic Small Letter Ni Unicode Character

U+2C9B "ⲛ" Coptic Small Letter Ni is a letter from the Coptic script, which was used to write the Egyptian language, particularly in Christian liturgical texts after the decline of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and Demotic. This character represents the voiced alveolar nasal sound, similar to the letter "n" in English, and it is the lowercase form of the capital Coptic Ni (U+2C9A). As part of the Coptic block in Unicode, it is distinct from the similar-looking Greek letter Nu, reflecting the unique history and shape of the Coptic alphabet, which was derived from Greek but included additional letters for Egyptian sounds no longer present in Greek.