Ṅ (lowercase ṅ) is a letter of the Latin and
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in northwest South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cultural ...
alphabet, formed by
N with the addition of a
dot above.
The letter is used in
Venda and
Emilian-Romagnol for the voiced
velar nasal
The voiced velar nasal, also known as eng, engma, or agma (from Greek 'fragment'), is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It is the sound of ''ng'' in English ''sing'' as well as ''n'' before velar consonants as in ''E ...
(IPA: ), corresponding to the pronunciation of the English digraph "ng" in final position.
Furthermore, the letter is used in some transliteration systems of South Asian languages. The letter is used in the
International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration for the "ng" sound corresponding to the Indian letters ङ / ঙ / ਙ / ઙ / ଙ / ங / ఙ / ಙ / ങ / ඞ. The letter is also used in the
ISO 9 transliteration of the Cyrillic letter
Ҥ.
Usage in various languages
Emilian
Ṅ is used in
Emilian to represent
� e.g. ''faréṅna''
aˈreŋːna"flour".
Romagnol
In
Romagnol the use of letter Ṅ is limited to linguistics to represent
�
Balinese
In
Balinese, "ṅ" is used to represent
�
Computer display
Unicode
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contains the Ṅ with the code points U+1E44 (uppercase) and U+1E45 (lowercase).
In
TeX
Tex, TeX, TEX, may refer to:
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one can type the Ṅ with the commands
\.N or
\.n.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:N
Latin letters with diacritics