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The letter eng, with its two variant capital forms.

Eng or engma (majuscule: Ŋ, minuscule: ŋ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used to represent a velar nasal (as in English singing) in the written form of some languages. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Cross of Saint George File links The following pages link to this file: Act of Union 1707 Acts of Union 1536-1543 Flag of England User:Trilobite Categories: Flag images | Flags of the United Kingdom ... Cross of Saint George File links The following pages link to this file: Act of Union 1707 Acts of Union 1536-1543 Flag of England User:Trilobite Categories: Flag images | Flags of the United Kingdom ... Majuscules or capital letters (in the Roman alphabet: A, B, C, ...) are one type of case in a writing system. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Letter case. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... The velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ...

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. Look up N, n in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... J# redirects here for technical reasons; see J Sharp. ... Sami is a general name for a group of Uralic languages spoken in parts of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and extreme northwestern Russia, in Northern Europe. ... Map showing the distribution of African language families and some major African languages. ...

An 1856 text in Gamilaraay, using a rotated capital G as a substitute for ŋ.

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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

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Vernacular orthographies

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

• African languages
  • Bari
  • Dinka
  • Ewe
  • Fula
  • Luganda
  • Manding languages
  • Songhay languages
  • Wolof
• American languages
  • O'odham
• Australian Aboriginal languages
  • Bandjalang
• Languages of China
  • Zhuang† (replaced by the digraph ng in 1986)
• Sami languages
  • Inari Sami
  • Lule Sami
  • Northern Sami
  • Skolt Sami
• Turkic languages
  • Tatar† (now ñ in Latin or ң in Cyrillic, see Jaŋalif)

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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. ISO 8859-4, also known as Latin-4 or North European, is an 8-bit character encoding, part of the ISO 8859 standard. ... Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ...

See also

• Ng (digraph)

Similar Latin letters: Ng (lowercase: ng) is a digraph of the Latin alphabet. ...

• Ƞ ƞ
• Ɲ ɲ
• ɳ
• ɱ

Similar Cyrillic letters: N with long right leg (majuscule: È , minuscule: Æž) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used to represent the nasalization of vowel in Lakota. ... The palatal nasal is a type of consonant, used in some spoken languages. ... The retroflex nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The labiodental nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ...

• Ӈ ӈ
• Ң ң
• Ҥ ҥ

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External links

• Practical Orthography of African Languages