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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [ŋ], [ŋ~ɴ], [ŋ~ŋɡ~ŋk] |
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En with descender (Ң ң; italics:Ң ң) is a letter of theCyrillic script. Its form is derived from theCyrillic letter En (Н н) by adding a descender to the right leg.
It is used in several mostlyTurkic languages to represent thevoiced velar nasal/ŋ/, like the pronunciation of⟨ng⟩ in "sing". In some cases, it also representsallophones of/ŋ/, most commonly thevoiced 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 |
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| 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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