Ng (Cyrillic)
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En with descender is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En
(Н н) by adding a descender to the right leg.
It commonly represents the velar nasal
/ŋ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ng⟩ in "sing".
The Cyrillic letter En with descender is romanized as ⟨ng⟩ or ⟨ñ⟩.
: Cyrillic letter En with hook
: Cyrillic ligature En Ge
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En
En (Cyrillic)
En is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the alveolar nasal consonant , like the pronunciation of ⟨n⟩ in "nice".-History:The Cyrillic letter En was derived from the Greek letter Nu ....
(Н н) by adding a descender to the right leg.
It commonly represents the velar nasal
Velar nasal
The velar nasal is the sound of ng in English sing. It is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is N....
/ŋ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ng⟩ in "sing".
The Cyrillic letter En with descender is romanized as ⟨ng⟩ or ⟨ñ⟩.
Usage
The Cyrillic letter En with descender is used in the alphabets of the following languages:Language | name of letter |
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Bashkir Bashkir language The Bashkir language is a Turkic language, and is the language of the Bashkirs. It is co-official with Russian in the Republic of Bashkortostan.-Speakers:... |
эң |
Dungan Dungan language The Dungan language is a Sinitic language spoken by the Dungan of Central Asia, an ethnic group related to the Hui people of China.-History:... |
ың |
Kalmyk Kalmyk language The Kalmyk language , or Russian Oirat, is the native speech of the Kalmyk people of the Republic of Kalmykia, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. In Russia, it is the normative form of the Oirat language , which belongs to the Mongolic language family... |
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Kazakh Kazakh language Kazakh is a Turkic language which belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages, closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak.... |
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Khakas Khakas language Khakas is a Turkic language spoken by the Khakas people, who mainly live in the southern Siberian Khakas Republic, or Khakassia, in Russia... |
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Kyrgyz Kyrgyz language Kyrgyz or Kirgiz, also Kirghiz, Kyrghiz, Qyrghiz is a Turkic language and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan... |
ың |
Tatar Tatar language The Tatar language , or more specifically Kazan Tatar, is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars of historical Kazan Khanate, including modern Tatarstan and Bashkiria... |
эң [eŋ] |
Turkmen Turkmen language Turkmen is the national language of Turkmenistan... |
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Tuvan Tuvan language Tuvan , also known as Tuvinian, Tyvan or Tuvin, is a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Tuva in south-central Siberia in Russia. The language has borrowed a great number of roots from the Mongolian language and more recently from the Russian language... |
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Uyghur Uyghur language Uyghur , formerly known as Eastern Turk, is a Turkic language with 8 to 11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Significant communities of Uyghur-speakers are located in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and various other... |
Computing codes
character | Ң | ң | ||
Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN WITH DESCENDER |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EN WITH DESCENDER |
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character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems... |
1186 | 04A2 | 1187 | 04A3 |
UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks... |
210 162 | D2 A2 | 210 163 | D2 A3 |
Numeric character reference Numeric character reference A numeric character reference is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-related markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the Universal Character Set of Unicode... |
Ң | Ң | ң | ң |
See also
: Cyrillic letter En with tailEn with tail
En with tail is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En by adding a tail to the right leg....
: Cyrillic letter En with hook
En with hook
En with hook is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En by adding a hook to the right leg.En with hook commonly represents the velar nasal , like the pronunciation of ⟨ng⟩ in "sing".-Usage:...
: Cyrillic ligature En Ge
- Ñ ñ : Latin letter ÑÑÑ is a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, formed by an N with a diacritical tilde. It is used in the Spanish alphabet, Galician alphabet, Asturian alphabet, Basque alphabet, Aragonese old alphabet , Filipino alphabet, Chamorro alphabet and the Guarani alphabet, where it represents...
- Ŋ ŋ : Latin letter EngEng (letter)Eng or engma is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used to represent a velar nasal in the written form of some languages and in the International Phonetic Alphabet.-History:...
- : Latin letter N with descenderꞐN with descender is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used in several Uniform Turkic Alphabet orthographies in 1930s , as well as in the 1990s orthographies invented in attempts to restore the Latin alphabet for the Tatar language and the Chechen language.In the majority of languages this letter...
- Cyrillic characters in UnicodeCyrillic characters in UnicodeThe Cyrillic script is encoded in four blocks in Unicode, all in BMP:* Cyrillic: , 256 characters* Cyrillic Supplement: , 48 characters* Cyrillic Extended-A: , 32 characters* Cyrillic Extended-B: , 96 characters...