Eng (letter)
| Ŋ | |
|---|---|
| Ŋ ŋ | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Latin script |
| Type | Alphabetic and Logographic |
| Language of origin | Avokaya language, Dagbani language, Dinka language, Ewe language, Fula language, Inari Sami language, Inupiaq language, Lakota language, Mandarin language, Northern Sami language, Nuer language, Nǁng language, Skolt Sami language, Tuareg language, Washo language |
| Sound values | |
| In Unicode | U+014A, U+014B |
| History | |
| Development | |
| Time period | 1619 to present |
| Descendants | ʩ |
| Sisters | |
| Transliterations | ng |
| Other | |
| Associated graphs | n(x), ng |
| Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
Eng, agma, or engma (capital: Ŋ, lowercase: ŋ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used to represent a voiced velar nasal, as in sing (/sɪŋ/), ring (/rɪŋ/), or thing (/θɪŋ/), 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.