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'Eng' or 'engma' (majuscule: 'Ŋ', minuscule: 'ŋ') is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used to represent a velar nasal (as in English ''si'ng'i'ng''') in the written form of some languages.

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Appearance

Usage

Technical transcription

Vernacular orthographies

Computer encoding

See also

External links

Appearance

Lowercase eng is derived from n with the addition of a hook to the right leg, somewhat like that of j. The uppercase has two variants: it can be based on the usual uppercase N, with a hook added (or "N-form"); or it can be an enlarged version of the lowercase (or "n-form"). The former is preferred in Sami languages that use it, the latter in African languages.

Early printers, lacking a specific glyph for eng, sometimes approximated it by rotating a capital G, or by substituting a Greek eta (η) for it.

Usage

Technical transcription

★ Americanist phonetic notation (where it may also represent a uvular nasal)

★ Sometimes for the transcription of Australian Aboriginal languages

★ International Phonetic Alphabet

★ Uralic Phonetic Alphabet

Vernacular orthographies

Languages marked † no longer use eng, but formerly did.

★ African languages

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★ Bari

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★ Dinka

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★ Ewe

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★ Fula

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★ Luganda

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★ Manding languages

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★ Songhay languages

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★ Wolof

★ American languages

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★ O'odham

★ Australian Aboriginal languages

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★ Bandjalang

★ Languages of China

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★ Zhuang† (replaced by the digraph ''ng'' in 1986)

★ Sami languages

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★ Inari Sami

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★ Lule Sami

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★ Northern Sami

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★ Skolt Sami

★ Turkic languages

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★ Tatar† (now ''ñ'' in Latin or ''ң'' in Cyrillic, see Jaŋalif)

Computer encoding

Eng is present in ISO 8859-4 (Latin-4) in order to write the Sami languages, at BD (uppercase) and BF (lowercase). In Unicode, it is encoded as U+014A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG and U+014B LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG.

See also

★ Ng (digraph)
Similar Latin letters:

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Similar Cyrillic letters:

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External links

★ Practical Orthography of African Languages