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Encyclopedia > Velar nasal

IPA – number 119
IPA – text ŋ
IPA – image Image:Xsampa-N2.png
Entity ŋ
X-SAMPA N
Kirshenbaum N
Sound sample (help· info)

The velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ŋ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is N. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... IPA symbols, detail from Image:Ipa-chart-consonants-pulmonic. ... HTML has been in use since 1991 (note that the W3C international standard is now XHTML), but the first standardized version with a reasonably complete treatment of international characters was version 4. ... The Extended SAM Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at the University of London. ... Kirshenbaum, sometimes called ASCII-IPA, is a system used to represent the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in ASCII. It was developed for Usenet, notably the newsgroups sci. ... Image File history File links Velar_nasal. ... In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by a closure or stricture of the vocal tract sufficient to cause audible turbulence. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... The Extended SAM Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at the University of London. ...

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Features

Features of the velar nasal:

The IPA symbol is a lowercase letter n with a leftward tail protruding from the bottom of the right stem of the letter. Compare n and ŋ. Both the symbol and the sound are commonly called as "eng" or "engma" and sometimes in reference to Greek, "angma". The symbol ŋ should not be confused with ɳ, the symbol for the retroflex nasal, which has a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the right stem or with ɲ, the symbol for the palatal nasal, which has a leftward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the left stem. In linguistics, manner of articulation describes how the tongue, lips, and other speech organs involved in making a sound make contact. ... A stop, plosive, or occlusive is a consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract. ... Places of articulation (passive & active): 1. ... Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate (the back part of the roof of the mouth, known also as the velum). ... For other uses, see Tongue (disambiguation). ... The soft palate, or velum, is the soft tissue comprising the back of the roof of the mouth. ... In phonetics, phonation is the use of the laryngeal system to generate an audible source of acoustic energy, i. ... A nasal consonant is produced when the velum—that fleshy part of the palate near the back—is lowered, allowing air to escape freely through the nose. ... A central or medial consonant is a consonant sound that is produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue. ... In phonetics, initiation is the action by which an air-flow is created through the vocal tract. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... The lungs flank the heart and great vessels in the chest cavity. ... The space between the vocal cords is called the glottis. ... The retroflex nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The palatal nasal is a type of consonant, used in some spoken languages. ...


Varieties of [ŋ]

IPA Description
ŋ plain ŋ
ŋ̊ voiceless ŋ
ŋ̍ syllabic ŋ
ŋ̈ breathy voiced ŋ
ŋ̃ creaky voiced ŋ

Phoneticians define phonation as use of the laryngeal system to generate an audible source of acoustic energy, i. ... This article discusses the unit of speech. ... Breathy voice or murmured voice is a phonation in which the vocal folds are vibrating as in normal voicing, but the glottal closure is incomplete, so that the voicing is somewhat inefficient and air continues to leak between the vocal folds throughout the vibration cycle with audible friction noise. ... Creaky voice (also called laryngealisation or vocal fry, especially in the US), is a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together; as a result, the vocal folds are compressed rather tightly, becoming relatively slack and compact, and forming a large, irregularly vibrating...

Occurrence

In English

In English, the velar nasal can only occur in the syllable coda. At the end of a word (or morpheme), where it's written as <ng>, it represents the velar nasal as a phoneme: sing [sɪŋ] (/sɪŋ/). Before a velar stop (/k/ or /g/), where it occurs as an underspecified nasal (the archiphoneme |N|) and written as <n>:bank [bæŋk] (/bæNk/); finger [fɪŋ.gə(ɹ)] (/fɪn.gr/) The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... In morpheme-based morphology, a morpheme is the smallest lingual unit that carries a semantic interpretation. ... A velar stop or velar plosive is a type of consonant. ... In oral language, a phoneme is the theoretical basic unit of sound that can be used to distinguish words or morphemes; in sign language, it is a similarly basic unit of hand shape, motion, position, or facial expression. ...


In other languages

  • Cantonese Chinese: 呉 [ŋ̩], "surname Ng"
  • Finnish: langan [lɑŋːɑn], "of the thread"
  • French: parking [paʀkiŋ], "parking lot"
  • Galician: gracinhas [graθiŋas], "thank you"
  • German: lang [laŋ], "long"
  • Greek: άγχος [ˈaŋ.xo̞s̠], "stress, anxiety"
  • Italian: anche [ˈaŋke] "also" (only before velar consonant)
  • Japanese (standard): 南極 (nankyoku) [naŋkʲokɯ], "the South Pole"; (many eastern dialects): 鍵 (kagi) [kaŋi], "key"
  • Korean: bang [paŋ], "room"
  • Mandarin Chinese: 北京 [pei˨˩˦ tɕɪŋ˥˥], "Beijing"
  • Norwegian: tango [taŋgu], "tango"
  • Polish: bank [baŋk], "bank"
  • Seri: comcaac [koŋˈkaak], "Seri people"
  • Spanish: domingo [d̪o̞ˈmiŋgo̞], "Sunday"

This article is on all of the Yue dialects. ... Ng is a Cantonese and Hakka transliteration of the Chinese surnames 吳/吴 (Pinyin: Wú) and 伍 (Pinyin: Wǔ), and Hokkien and Teochew transliteration of the Chinese surname 黃/黄 (Pinyin: Huáng). ... Galician (Galician: galego, pron. ... // As with any language, Japanese has its share of regional dialects. ... Mandarin (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: ; literally speech of officials), or Beifanghua (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; literally Northern Dialect(s)), is a category of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. ... Beijing [English Pronunciation] (Chinese: 北京 [Chinese Pronunciation]; Pinyin: Běijīng; IPA: ), a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... Seri is a language isolate spoken by the Seri people in two villages on the coast of Sonora, Mexico. ...

See also

  Consonants (List, table) See also: IPA, Vowels  
Pulmonics Bilabial Lab'den. Dental Alveolar Postalv. Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyn. Epiglottal Glottal Non-pulmonics and other symbols
Nasals m ɱ n̪ n ɳ ɲ ŋ ɴ Clicks  ʘ ǀ ǃ ǂ ǁ
Plosives p b p̪ b̪ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Implo­­sives  ɓ ɗ ʄ ɠ ʛ
Fricatives  ɸ β f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ ʂ ʐ ç ʝ x ɣ χ ʁ ħ ʕ ʜ ʢ h ɦ Ejec­­tives  pʼ tʼ kʼ qʼ sʼ
Approximants  β̞ ʋ ð̞ ɹ ɻ j ɰ Other laterals  ɺ ɫ
Trills ʙ r • ʀ • Co-articulated approximants ʍ w ɥ
Flaps & Taps ѵ̟ ѵ ɾ ɽ • Co-articulated fricatives ɕ ʑ ɧ
Lat. Fricatives ɬ ɮ • • • Affricates  ʦ ʣ ʧ ʤ
Lat. Appr'mants l ɭ ʎ ʟ Co-articulated stops  k͡p ɡ͡b ŋ͡m
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Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a voiced consonant. Shaded areas denote pulmonic articulations judged impossible.

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Velar nasal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (610 words)
The velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
Its place of articulation is velar which means it is articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate (the velum).
The symbol ŋ should not be confused with ɳ, the symbol for the retroflex nasal, which has a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the right stem or with ɲ, the symbol for the palatal nasal, which has a leftward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the left stem.
Velar consonant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (288 words)
Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate (the back part of the roof of the mouth, known also as the velum).
Since the velar region of the roof of the mouth is relatively extensive and the movements of the dorsum are not very precise, velars easily undergo assimilation, shifting their articulation back or to the front depending on the quality of adjacent vowels.
Many languages also have labialized velars, such as [kʷ], in which the articulation is accompanied by rounding of the lips.
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