Eng (letter)

Eng or engma (capital: Ŋ, lowercase: ŋ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used to represent a voiced velar nasal (as in English singing) in the written form of some languages and in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

For the similarly shaped Greek letter, see Eta. For the similarly shaped Hebrew letter, see Mem § Hebrew Mem. For the Latvian and Marshallese character Ņ, see Cedilla § Languages with other characters with cedillas.
Ŋ
Ŋ ŋ
Usage
Writing systemLatin script
TypeAlphabetic and Logographic
Language of originLatin language
Phonetic usage
  • [ŋ]
  • [ŋ̊]
  • /ˈɛŋ/
Unicode codepointU+014A, U+014B
History
Development
            • Ν ν
              • 𐌍
                • N n
                  • Ŋ ŋ
Time period1619 to present
Descendantsʩ
SistersꞐ ꞑ
Transliteration equivalentsng
Other
Other letters commonly used withn(x), ng
Writing directionLeft-to-Right

In Washo, lower-case ⟨ŋ⟩ represents a typical [ŋ] sound, while upper-case ⟨Ŋ⟩ represents a voiceless [ŋ̊] sound. This convention comes from Americanist phonetic notation.

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