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This article is about the Latin letter Ŋ. For the sound it represents, see voiced velar nasal.
For the similarly shaped Greek letter (η), see Eta. For the similarly shaped Hebrew letter (מ), see Mem § Hebrew mem. For the Latvian and Marshallese character Ņ, see Cedilla § Languages with other characters with cedillas.
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.
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Ŋ | |
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Ŋ ŋ | |
Usage | |
Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic and Logographic |
Language of origin | Latin language |
Phonetic usage | |
Unicode codepoint | U+014A, U+014B |
History | |
Development | |
Time period | 1619 to present |
Descendants | ʩ |
Sisters | Ꞑ ꞑ |
Transliteration equivalents | ng |
Other | |
Other letters commonly used with | n(x), ng |
Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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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.