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En with descender (Ң ң; italics: Ң ң) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En (Н н) by adding a descender to the right leg.
It is used in several mostly Turkic languages to represent the voiced velar nasal /ŋ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ng⟩ in "sing". In some cases, it also represents allophonesof/ŋ/, most commonly the voiced uvular nasal /ɴ/.
The Cyrillic letter En with descender is romanized as ⟨ng⟩or⟨ñ⟩.
The Cyrillic letter En with descender is used in the alphabets of the following languages:
Language | Name of letter | Sound |
---|---|---|
Bashkir | эң (eñ) | [ŋ~ɴ] |
Dungan | ың (eng) | [ŋ] |
Kalmyk | аң (añ) | [ŋ~ŋg~ŋk] |
Karakalpak | эң (en') | [ŋ~ɴ] |
Kazakh | эң (éñ) | [ŋ~ɴ] |
Khakas | эң/ың | [ŋ] |
Kyrgyz | ың | [ŋ~ɴ] |
Shor | эң | [ŋ] |
Tatar | эң (eñ) | [ŋ~ɴ] |
Turkmen | эң (eň) | [ŋ] |
Tuvan | эң | [ŋ] |
Uyghur | әң (eng) | [ŋ~ɴ] |
Preview | Ң | ң | ||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN WITH DESCENDER |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EN WITH DESCENDER | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1186 | U+04A2 | 1187 | U+04A3 |
UTF-8 | 210 162 | D2 A2 | 210 163 | D2 A3 |
Numeric character reference | Ң |
Ң |
ң |
ң |
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