Also known as En with descender
Cyrillic letter
Key facts
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Type
- Alphabetic
- Sound values
- [ ŋ ], [ ŋ ~ ɴ ], [ ŋ ~ ŋ ɡ ~ ŋ k ]
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Encyclopedic overview
En with descender (Ң ң; italics: Ң ң) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En (Н н) by adding a descender to the right leg.
It is used in several mostly Turkic languages to represent the voiced velar nasal /ŋ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ng⟩ in "sing". In some cases, it also represents allophones of /ŋ/, most commonly the voiced uvular nasal /ɴ/.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ң” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.