Palatal nasal in various encoding schemes ITRANS: ~n, JNa Harvard Kyoto: J Velthius: ~n Unicode: ñ, ञ, ཉ I have seen nya but I'm not sure what system this comes from. Ñāṇatiloka spells his name Nyanatiloka for instance. N is typically used for the retroflex nasal. ITRANS: N Harvard Kyoto: N Velthius: .n Unicode: ṇ, ण, ཎ नमस्ते Jayarava