N is a symbol oof movement and stopping.It represents an impassable object in front of you, or the place where you must go and then stop — going no further.
An illustration that helps explain the origin of the letter N can be found in the movement of walking feet, from which it descends, and in the double Z of the Illyrians. Since the dawn of spoken language, the image of a person walking or running — feet and hands in motion — has served as a chosen symbol of movement. Over time, Albanians and other European peoples lost the original meanings of many ancient symbols, yet the Albanian language preserved them within itself.
The letters of the alphabet come from symbols that reflect objects, actions, and human experiences — symbolic representations of life and feeling from the earliest days of speech.
The letter N also appears in the Vinča script, which is far older than the N of the Phoenicians, Greeks, or Romans. In that early form, it was drawn as the tip of an arrow stopped by a line above it — a symbol of halted movement. Similarly, in Chinese, the character for “no” is 不, which also signifies where the arrow stops — the point where movement ends, but also the place of arrival.
The Egyptian, Phoenician, Greek, and Roman forms of N convey the idea of movement, but not of stopping. This may seem paradoxical to us today, but not to those who first created the symbol in the time before writing, when spoken language was just beginning to take symbolic form. When it was first written, N represented an arrow that comes to a stop upon encountering an obstacle.
Examples across languages preserve this sense of negation or cessation:
NO, NUK, NONE, NOT, NET, NEM, NEVER, NDAL, INGEN, ANAN...
English provides the clearest symbol in N-EVËR → NEVER, and Albanian NDAL (stop) also expresses the stopping SYMBOL of "N" becauese simply "DAL" means exit.
Algoritmi simbolic:
NDAL=N+DAL
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