Ŋ | |
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Ŋ ŋ | |
Usage | |
Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic and Logographic |
Language of origin | Latin language |
Sound values | |
In Unicode | U+014A, U+014B |
History | |
Development | |
Time period | 1619 to present |
Descendants | ʩ |
Sisters | Ꞑ ꞑ |
Transliterations | ng |
Other | |
Associated graphs | n(x), ng |
Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
Eng or engma (capital: Ŋ, lowercase: ŋ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used to represent a voiced velar nasal (as in English singing) in the written form of some languages and in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
In Washo, lower-case ⟨ŋ⟩ represents a typical [ŋ] sound, while upper-case ⟨Ŋ⟩ represents a voiceless [ŋ̊] sound. This convention comes from Americanist phonetic notation.