En-ghe (Ҥ ҥ; italics:
''Ҥ ҥ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, ...
used only in non-Slavic languages. The shape of the letter originated as a
ligature
Ligature may refer to:
* Ligature (medicine), a piece of suture used to shut off a blood vessel or other anatomical structure
** Ligature (orthodontic), used in dentistry
* Ligature (music), an element of musical notation used especially in the me ...
of the Cyrillic letters
en (Н н) and
ghe (Г г), but en-ghe is used as a separate letter in alphabets.
It represents the
velar nasal , like the pronunciation of 〈ng〉 in "sing".
Ҥ is romanized using Ṅ, Ng, or even Ŋ.
En-ghe is used in the alphabets of the
Aleut
The Aleuts ( ; russian: Алеуты, Aleuty) are the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, which are located between the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. Both the Aleut people and the islands are politically divided between the U ...
,
Altai,
Meadow Mari
Meadow Mari or Meadow-Eastern Mari or Eastern Mari is a standardised dialect of the Mari language used by about half a million people mostly in the European part of the Russian Federation. Meadow Mari, Hill Mari, and Russian are official langua ...
, and
Yakut languages.
In certain
Old Slavonic
Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic () was the first Slavic literary language.
Historians credit the 9th-century Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius with standardizing the language and using it in translating the Bible and other ...
manuscripts, a character of the same shape could be used to represent palatalized , a role similar to modern Serbian/Macedonian letter
nje
Nje (Њ њ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters En and Soft Sign .Maretić, Tomislav. ''Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika''. 1899. It was invented by Vuk ...
(Њ њ). These manuscripts also may contain similarly built characters for palatalized Д, З, Л and Р.
Computing codes
Related letters and other similar characters
* Ң ң :
Cyrillic letter en with descender
* Ӈ ӈ :
Cyrillic letter en with hook
* Ŋ ŋ :
Latin letter eng
*
:
Latin letter n with descender
*𝆦:
Hauptstimme
In music, (German for ''primary voice'') or is the main voice, chief part; i.e., the contrapuntal or melodic line of primary importance, in opposition to . (German for ''secondary voice'') or is the secondary part; i.e., a secondary contrapu ...
Cyrillic ligatures
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