Ṅ (lowercase ṅ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed by
N with the addition of a
dot above.
The letter is used in
Venda and
Emilian-Romagnol
Emilian-Romagnol is a linguistic continuum part of the Gallo-Romance languages spoken in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. It is divided into two main varieties: Emilian and Romagnol.
While first registered under a single code in ...
for the voiced
velar nasal (IPA: ), corresponding to the pronunciation of the English digraph "ng" in final position.
Furthermore, the letter is used in some transliteration systems of South Asian languages. The letter is used in the
International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration for the "ng" sound corresponding to the Indian letters ङ / ঙ / ਙ / ઙ / ଙ / ங / ఙ / ಙ / ങ / ඞ. The letter is also used in the
ISO 9 transliteration of the Cyrillic letter
Ҥ.
Usage in various languages
Emilian-Romagnol
Ṅ is used in
Emilian to represent
e.g. ''faréṅna''
aˈreŋːna"flour". In
Romagnol
Romagnol ( or ; it, romagnolo) is a Romance languages, Romance language spoken in the historical region of Romagna, consisting mainly of the southeastern part of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The name is derived from the Lombard language, Lombard name ...
the letter has the same value, but its use is limited to linguistics.
Computer display
Unicode contains the Ṅ with the code points U+1E44 (uppercase) and U+1E45 (lowercase).
In
TeX one can type the Ṅ with the commands
\.N or
\.n.
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Latin letters with diacritics